title: High contrast and homogeneous staining of paraffin sections of whole human brains for three dimensional ultrahigh resolution image analysis.
abstract: The gallocyanin chromalum stain belongs to the classical DNA-RNA staining techniques in histochemistry. It has some important features for successful object orientated image analysis of whole sections of the human brain. To obtain reproducible staining results with these large sections, the method of Einarson was adapted to image analytical requirements. We discuss staining in a warm staining solution, pH adjustment, and optimal stain composition. The embedding procedure for whole human brains is considered as well.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, Medical University Lübeck, Germany.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Schmitt
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Eggers
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D006801:Humans; D008867:Microtomy; D016612:Paraffin Embedding; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013194:Staining and Labeling / Q000379:methods*