Use of perfusion fixation for improved neuropathologic examination

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1199-1206

  Adickes, Edward D ^a   Folkerth, Rebecca D ^b   Sims, Kenneth L ^a  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; VIMENTIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN PERFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; STAINING; TISSUE FIXATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BUFFERS; COLORING AGENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EOSINE YELLOWISH-(YS); FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; FORMALDEHYDE; HEMATOXYLIN; HUMANS; IMMERSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PERFUSION; SILVER STAINING; STAINING AND LABELING; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 0031421418     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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