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Arnolds' silver staining of Helbodella (leech) embryos

David A Weisblat1, Dian-Han Kuo

  • 1Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3200, USA. weisblat@berkeley.edu

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
|February 12, 2010
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Arnolds silver staining visualizes epidermal cell boundaries in Helobdella embryos. This method works on both living and fixed embryos, with special fixation preserving cell junctions in fixed specimens.

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