Chemical Studies on the Silver Staining of Nucleoli

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Journal Experientia

Specialty Science

Date 1980 Feb 15

PMID 6154595

Citations 4

Authors

H Kling

L Lepore

W Krone

J Olert

G Sawatzki

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Abstract

The uptake of Ag-ions by isolated nucleoli of rat liver cells was studied. Nucleolar proteins separated by electrophoresis were examined for selective silver-staining. A mechanism for preferential Ag-staining of the nucleoli is discussed.

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