Synthesis of a more stable osmium ammine electron-dense DNA stain.
Open Access
- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry
- Vol. 37 (3) , 395-398
- https://doi.org/10.1177/37.3.2465337
Abstract
Specific DNA staining for electron microscopic observation is simplified by a shorter synthesis of the staining reagent. The new, more reliable reagent, osmium ammine-B, is stable for more than a year, dissolves completely in water, and does not require reoptimization of staining conditions for every batch, yet reproducibly gives strong contrast to DNA-containing structures.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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