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Nuragic bone collagen retains its molecular structure
G Tedde1, V Mazzarello, P Bandiera
1Istituto di Anatomia Umana Normale, Università di Sassari.
Abstract:
The molecular structure of bone collagen was found to be preserved in Nuragic bone samples several centuries after burial. Enhanced birefringence of bone and dentin collagen fibres observed in polarized light after Sirus red staining was used to demonstrate this fact.