Physicochemical mechanisms of histological silver staining and their utilization for rendering individual silver methods selective and reliable.
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.
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Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pecs, Pecs, Ret utca 2, Hungary.
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*
D007477:Ions; D012834:Silver