Staining for electron microscopy by vanadyl sulphate. Use of collagen as a model system
β Scribed by Margaret Tzaphlidou
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 447 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0739-6260
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β¦ Synopsis
The staining behaviour ofvanadyl sulphate was studied using reconstituted collagen fibrils as a model system and comparing electron-optical data and collagen sequence data by a computer-aided correlation procedure. The results show that, under the conditions used, vanadyl sulphate stains both negatively and positively charged side-chains on the collagen. Other evidence suggests that vanadyl sulphate is an effective electron stain.
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