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Diaphonization

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Clearing renders the animals transparent and is achieved by bathing the specimens in a soup of trypsin, a digestive enzyme that slowly breaks down flesh. The dyes alizarin red and alcian blue are most commonly used in the staining of bone and cartilage accordingly. When cleared, the specimen is put
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Diaphonization is not suitable for animals longer than 30 centimeters (except for snakes) due to the limited ability of the trypsin bath to penetrate the tissues of larger animals. It is usually used to preserve animals that are too delicate to
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in glycerin. Despite its merits, diaphonization is not widely used in the scientific field. Advancements in imaging technology have rendered the practice all but obsolete, though it is expanding as an art form.
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Diaphonization was first developed by O. Schultze in 1897, and later was modified by numerous researchers.
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technique used on animal specimens that first renders the body of the animal transparent by bathing it in
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Dwyer, Joseph; Ramirez, M. Desmond; Katz, Paul S.; Karlstrom, Rolf O.; Bergan, Joseph (2021).
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mirror dory

veiled chameleon
Field Museum of Natural History
staining
trypsin
bones
cartilage
alizarin red
alcian blue
dissect


"Dyeing the Dead: The Artful Science of Diaphonization"
"Elaboration of transparent biological specimens for visualisation of developing cartilage and bone"
"Accelerated clearing and molecular labeling of biological tissues using magnetohydrodynamic force"
Bibcode
2021NatSR..1116462D
doi
10.1038/s41598-021-95692-2
PMC
8360944
PMID
34385489
"A RAPID METHOD FOR CLEARING AND STAINING SPECIMENS FOR THE DEMONSTRATION OF BONE"
"The Artful Science of Diaphonization"
Categories
Staining
Staining dyes

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