Osmium

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A simple osmium post-fixation paraffin-embedment technique to identify lipid accumulation in fish liver using medaka (Oryziaslatipes) eggs and eleutheroembryos as lipid rich models. 
  • Comparative demonstration of pulmonary fat emboli by "en bloc" osmium tetroxide and oil red O methods. 
  • The choice between the positive and negative structures for nerve myelin. 
  • The lipid-rich core region of human atherosclerotic fibrous plaques. Prevalence of small lipid droplets and vesicles by electron microscopy. 
  • Ultrastructural discrimination of lipid droplets and vesicles in atherosclerosis: value of osmium-thiocarbohydrazide-osmium and tannic acid-paraphenylenediamine techniques.