Effective melanin depigmentation of human and murine ocular tissues: an improved method for paraffin and frozen sections.

PURPOSE: The removal of excessive melanin pigments that obscure ocular tissue morphology is important to address scientific questions and for differential diagnosis of ocular tumours based on histology. Thus, the goal of the present study was to establish an effective and fast melanin bleaching meth...

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Main Authors: Caroline Manicam, Susanne Pitz, Christoph Brochhausen, Franz H Grus, Norbert Pfeiffer, Adrian Gericke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4099143?pdf=render