[Histonet] Tetracycline and decalcification

[Lesley Weston]

Thanks to everyone who replied to my query. I was asking on behalf of
someone else, and I guess he'll just have to find some other way.

Lesley Weston.


on 16/10/2003 3:01 PM, Lesley Weston at lesley <@t> vancouverbc.net wrote:

> Does anyone know if decalcifying tetracycline-treated bone affects its
> fluorescence? Everything I can find on the subject says that they embedded
> undecalcified bone in methacrylate, but is this essential? If it is OK to
> decalcify, should one use acid or EDTA? Sorry to be so helpless, but this
> doesn't seem to have been covered anywhere. Thanks to anyone who can help.
> 
> Lesley Weston.
> 
> 
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