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IN connexion with Dr. Śliżyński's note1 on the human chromosomes in bone marrow cells, obtained by a sternal puncture, I wish to direct attention to a paper published by F. A. Saez and me in 19342. In this paper we give details of a method of extracting bone marrow by a sternal puncture in order to investigate the human chromosomes, and we conclude that "as to the staining, we obtained good results with May-Grünwald-Giemsa, but other methods may also be used, as—for instance—fixation with osmic acid vapour of the fresh smears, and staining with hæmatoxylin".
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Sliżynski, B. M., Nature, 155, 427 (1945).
Varela, M. E., and Saez, F. A., Rev. Soc. Argent. Biol, 10, 421 (1934).
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VARELA, M. Human Chromosomes. Nature 156, 755 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156755a0
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