A modified gold chloride technique for optimal impregnation of nerves within corneal whole mounts and dura of the albino rat.
Ranvier's method of staining tissue whole mounts with gold chloride to visualize nerve fibers was modified by lengthening the incubation time in gold chloride and reducing the time in acidulated water. These simple modifications of an old technique give consistent impregnation of nerve fibers with light background staining in whole mounts of cornea and dura.
Silverberg
K R
KR
Neurosurgical Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114.
Ogilvy
C S
CS
Borges
L F
LF
D000818:Animals; D003315:Cornea / Q000294:innervation*; D004388:Dura Mater / Q000166:cytology*; D006046:Gold; D006652:Histological Techniques; D009474:Neurons / Q000166:cytology*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains
D006046:Gold