For tibia hematoxylin-eosin staining and tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP) staining, the sections were stained with HE staining kit (Beyotime, Shanghai, China) and Acid phosphatase, Leukocyte (TRAP) kit (387A, Sigma-Aldrich, Germany) following the manufacturer's protocol.
For the immunohistochemical staining, tibia and DRG sections were incubated with methanol containing 3% H2O2 for 15 min. After antigen repair, sections were blocked with 10% goat serum (Gibco) in TBS for 3 h. Then sections were incubated with primary antibody at 4°C overnight. After washing and horseradish peroxidase enzyme labeled secondary antibodies incubation, DAB substrate solution and hematoxylin was used according to the previous report (Hao et al., 2018 (link)).