Re: Two hairy proposals--sorry!

From: Steve G. Hilliard (steve@habanero.cb.uga.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 31 1997 - 08:52:05 EST


To followup to my own post, I apologize about subject B--we have since 
discovered quite a few papers dealing with in vivo tissues.  That's what I 
get for relying on someone else's lit search!  Any suggestions still 
gratefully accepted!

On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Steve G. Hilliard wrote:

> 
> b)  Subject B has already collected (! arrgghh !) spleen and bone 
> marrow samples from mice exposed to high levels of radiation, and 
> would like to do micronuclei assays or chromatin fragmentation.  The 
> Nusse et al chapter in the "D.R.C.,  Methods in Cell Bio. vol II" seems 
> promising, but only with cell cultures.  Primary tissue apparently has 
> a lot of debris, which confuses the detection of micronuclei.  I would 
> also think that this will be especially difficult with heterogeneous 
> tissue like bone marrow.
> 

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