Reliable and durable Golgi staining of brain tissue from human autopsies and experimental animals

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 230, Issue , 2014, Pages 20-29

  Rosoklija, Gorazd B ^a,b,c   Petrushevski, Vladimir M ^c   Stankov, Aleksandar ^c   Dika, Ani ^c   Jakovski, Zlatko ^c   Pavlovski, Goran ^c   Davcheva, Natasha ^c   Lipkin, Richard ^a   Schnieder, Tatiana ^a   Scobie, Kimberley ^d   Duma, Aleksej ^c   Dwork, Andrew J ^a,b,c  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MACEDONIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Macedonia)

^c SS CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY   (Macedonia)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Dendrites; Dendritic spines; Experimental animals; Golgi Cox; Golgi Kopsch; Human; Rapid Golgi

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMMONIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN TISSUE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENTATE GYRUS; EMBEDDING; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FRONTAL CORTEX; GOLGI STAIN; GRANULAR CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCUBATION TIME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RELIABILITY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITE; FRONTAL LOBE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STAINING; TISSUE FIXATION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; DENDRITES; DENDRITIC SPINES; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STAINING AND LABELING; TISSUE FIXATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899785500     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2014.04.006     Document Type: Article

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