title: Physicochemical mechanisms of histological silver staining and their utilization for rendering individual silver methods selective and reliable.
abstract: Staining morphological or chemical constituents of biological tissues, cells and microorganisms with silver proceeds via different reaction routes. In this paper, I put their physicochemical mechanisms into a coherent system and discuss how these can be controlled and separated from each other, thereby permitting selective, sensitive and reliable demonstration of individual tissue constituents.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pecs, Pecs, Ret utca 2, Hungary.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gallyas
mesh_terms: D002384:Catalysis; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D004563:Electrochemistry; D006651:Histocytochemistry / Q000379:methods*; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007477:Ions / Q000737:chemistry; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012834:Silver; D016622:Silver Staining / Q000379:methods*; D013194:Staining and Labeling / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D007477:Ions; D012834:Silver