<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Is there any reason to fix tissue prior to maceration? I can only think of negative consequences to using formalin, like those Dirk enumerated.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Steve.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Steve Halford (<a href="mailto:halford@sfu.ca" target="_blank">halford@sfu.ca</a>)<br>Museum Technician (Retired) <br>Department of Biological Sciences<br>Simon Fraser University<br><br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 6:45 PM, David Katz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dckatz@ucdavis.edu" target="_blank">dckatz@ucdavis.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone, <div><br></div><div>We will have a number of medium bodied primate carcasses that we plan to macerate in order to preserve the skeletons. We've been told that fixing with formaldehyde prior to maceration can negatively affect the bones. </div><div><br></div><div>What are the consequences? Is this an issue for both short and long duration fixation, or just long? Thanks very much.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br>David<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_8274877614722845879gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>David C. Katz, Ph.D.</div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Postdoctoral Fellow</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Benedikt Hallgrimsson L<span style="font-size:12.8px">ab</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">University of Calgary</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div>Research Associate</div><div>Department of Anthropology<br>University of California, Davis<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.researchgate.net_profile_David-5FKatz29&d=DwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=l2m1TxetuJFFU3F1X1583Si31tc_rwjKAPbjbBGfOiA&s=SKyKxGfcWWp-HTvfqIULUy2uF4nVwFZfmMCrJEbpoyI&e=" target="_blank">ResearchGate profile</a><br></div><div><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__davidckatz.wordpress.com_&d=DwMFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=l2m1TxetuJFFU3F1X1583Si31tc_rwjKAPbjbBGfOiA&s=ert2P4xx4XKkYCEAjdJXnyV6IzJQgl-BjzI38PFjwDQ&e=" target="_blank">Personal webpage<br></a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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