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A new histochemical method to assess and evaluate potential bone marrow damage from therapeutic substances

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A new model is presented for assessing and evaluating the influence of bone-marrow-damaging substances in mice. Qualitative and quantitative results of histological, histochemical and enzyme histochemical studies facilitate the assessment of bone marrow damage in terms of extent and intensity. Bone marrow taken from the right femur of treated animals was embedded in renal tissue of controls for subsequent work-up in different techniques. From each of the experimental groups specimens from 10 animals were frozen in liquid nitrogen, specimens from another 10 animals were fixed in buffered formalin. Assessment and evaluation of changes was performed after the required histologic and histochemical staining (nucleic acid). Results were correlated with the cytology of bone marrow smears sampled from the left femur of each respective animal. Damage was visualized, in smear cytology or in histologic and histochemical preparations, and quantified by microphotometry and special staining for cytochrome oxidase activity.

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  1. R+D-Laboratories of Dr. Thiemann GmbH, Lünen/Westf., Germany

    A. G. Ciplea & D. Mayer

  2. Department of Pathology and Institute of Pathology of Münster University, Münster, Germany

    A. G. Ciplea & D. Mayer

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Ciplea, A.G., Mayer, D. A new histochemical method to assess and evaluate potential bone marrow damage from therapeutic substances. Histochemistry 71, 481–490 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00508374

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