TY  - JOUR
A1  - ,  
T1  - Staining body slices before and after plastination
JO  - Eur. J. Anat.
SN  - 1136-4890
Y1  - 2008
VL  - 12
SP  - 51
EP  - 55
UR  - http://www.eurjanat.com/web/paper.php?id=08010051
KW  - analytic method
KW  - article
KW  - body slice
KW  - connective tissue
KW  - high resolution computer tomography
KW  - human
KW  - intermethod comparison
KW  - ligament
KW  - muscle tissue
KW  - plastination
KW  - staining
KW  - structure analysis
N2  - A newly developed staining technique of body slices is helpful because of the difficulty in differentiating the various structures such as ligaments, connective tissue, muscle etc, especially in thin slices, which allows comparison with high resolution MRI. In this study, both already plastinated slices and slices to be plastinated were stained. The already plastinated slices were first ground, and then stained. After staining, the bone stained pink; muscles - green; cartilage - violet; connective tissue - blue-violet. Conversely, native sawn slices were first stained and then plastinated with E12/E1 using the advanced slice plastination technique, providing the first possibility to obtain stained plastinates made by slice plastination. They are below 1 mm thin and can be made from any part in the body. In these slices, the skin, ligaments and connective tissue stained reddish pink and the bone marrow - green, while the muscles remained brownish. The method of staining native body slices with subsequent plastination is simple and rapid and affords a better differentiation of structures.
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