Changes in metaphasic chromosomal ultrastructure caused by denaturing treatments

Cerdán, E.; Pasantes, J.; Méndez, J.; Goyanes, V.

Cytobios 55(222-223): 167-170

1988


ISSN/ISBN: 0011-4529
PMID: 3075165
Document Number: 316719
Denaturation and posterior renaturation of metaphase chromosomes after different treatments were tested by acridine orange staining. A relationship between conservation of ultrastructure and the capacity to renature was discovered. Amyl acetate, commonly used in electron microscopy to fix chromosomes, avoids the action of denaturing agents and this effect is not reversed by chromosome rehydration.

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