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Silver stain

silver stain

(Science: technique) Any of a variety of stain's (e.g., Bielschowsky's, Gomori's silver, impregnation stain's) which employ alkaline silver nitrate solutions to stain connective tissue fibres (reticulin, collagen), calcium salt deposits, spirochaetes, neurological tissue, and nucleolar organiser regions.


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... don’t have suitable antibody or anti-antibody conjugate. You could try silver staining, but that won’t be specific for your protein. You might try zymography if your enzyme ...

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by blcr11
Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:34 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
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The Fiber Disease

... rhinosporidiosis. A formaldehyde-fixed section of human nasal polyp was stained with Periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) and visualized by bright-field microscopy ... R. seeberi is visualized with fungal stains such as methenamine silver and Periodic acid-Schiff, as well as mucicarmine, which stains the ...

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by al
Mon Dec 25, 2006 1:39 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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For Mr. Hill

... Advertisement The microbiologic testing of the tissue included Gram stain with aerobic and anaerobic bacterial cultures, acidfast bacilli smear, ... (Figure, A). The organisms were stained with Gomori methenamine silver (Figure, B and D) and mucicarmine (Figure, C) stains, which highlighted ...

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by C3
Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:59 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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