This article, the third in a four-part series, explores the axial skeleton. Part four will look at the appendicular skeleton. There are a total of 206 bones in the human adult body (Tortora and ...
Newborn mice and 18.5-dpc fetuses were skinned and eviscerated, fixed in 80% ethanol, dehydrated in 95% ethanol for 1 d and acetone for 3 d. We then stained skeletons in 10% acetic acid in ethanol ...