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. 1977 Nov;52(6):311-3.
doi: 10.3109/10520297709116804.

A technique for the simultaneous staining of both nucleolar organizer regions and kinetochores of human chromosomes with silver

T E Denton, W R Brooke, W M Howell

A technique for the simultaneous staining of both nucleolar organizer regions and kinetochores of human chromosomes with silver

T E Denton et al. Stain Technol. 1977 Nov.

Abstract

Pretreatment of human metaphase chromosomes with NaOH at a pH of 8.5, followed by staining with silver nitrate, differentially stains both the nucleolar organizer regions on the 10 acrocentric chromosomes as well as the kinetochore centers on all 46 chromosomes.

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