title: The silver anniversary of gold: 25 years of the colloidal gold marker system for immunocytochemistry and histochemistry.
abstract: Since 1971, when W.P. Faulk and G.M. Taylor published "An immunocolloid method for the electron microscope", colloidal gold has become a very widely used marker in microscopy. It has been used to detect a huge range of cellular and extracellular constituents by in situ hybridization, immunogold, lectin-gold, and enzyme-gold labeling. Besides its use in light microscopic immunogold and lectin-gold silver staining, colloidal gold remains the label of choice for transmission electron microscopy studying thin sections, freeze-etch, and surface replicas, as well as for scanning electron microscopy. The year 1996 is the 25th anniversary of the introduction of colloidal gold as a marker in immunoelectron microscopy and this overview outlines some of the major milestones in the development of the colloidal gold marker system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, University of Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Roth
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017979:Gold Colloid; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*
chemical_list: D017979:Gold Colloid