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Osmium Tetroxide

Known as: Osmium Tetroxide [Chemical/Ingredient], Osmic Acid, Osmium oxide (OsO4), (T-4)- 
(T-4)-Osmium oxide (OsO4). A highly toxic and volatile oxide of osmium used in industry as an oxidizing agent. It is also used as a histological… 
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Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Oxidative damage in DNA. Lack of mutagenicity by thymine glycol lesions.
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Formation of cytosine glycol and 5,6-dihydroxycytosine in deoxyribonucleic acid on treatment with osmium tetroxide.
OsO4 selectively forms thymine glycol lesions in DNA. In the past, OsO4-treated DNA has been used as a substrate in studies of… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
The structure of the endoplasmic reticulum revealed by osmium tetroxide-potassium ferricyanide staining.
Postfixation of plant tissues with a mixture of osmium tetroxide and potassium ferricyanide (OsFeCN) yields a selective staining… 
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Polymerizable glutaraldehyde-urea mixtures as polar, water-containing embedding media.
Highly Cited
1970
Highly Cited
1970
Microtubules in the heliozoan axopodium. I. The gradion hypothesis of allosterism in structural proteins.
Highly Cited
1969
Highly Cited
1969
OSMIUM ZINC IODIDE REACTIVE SITES IN THE EPIDERMAL LANGERHANS CELL
Fixation of epidermis with a mixture of osmium tetroxide and zinc iodide (OsO4-ZnI2) for 24 hr renders the central periodic… 
Highly Cited
1966
Highly Cited
1966
The preservation of unfixed cytological detail by dehydration with "inert" agents.
Highly Cited
1961
Highly Cited
1961
The ultrastructure of the nodes of Ranvier in cat sympathetic nerve fibers.
Highly Cited
1954
Highly Cited
1954
Membrane structures of cytoplasm and mitochondria in exocrine cells of mouse pancreas as revealed by high resolution electron microscopy.
Highly Cited
1949
Highly Cited
1949
THE STATE OF THE CHROMOSOMES IN THE INTERPHASE NUCLEUS
In the living interphase nucleus no chromosomal structures are visible. Yet in the injured cell and after treatment with most… 
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