CONGO RED AS A STAIN FOR FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY OF AMYLOID
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The congo red stain revisited.
The Congo red stain has undergone several modifications since it was first used by Bennhold in 1922 in order to increase the specificity for staining amyloid. Most of the laboratories in the United States use the method of Puchtler which uses alkaline Congo red solution. Some of the variables associated with the procedure were investigated by us. Our results showed the following: (1) amyloid sh...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry
سال: 1965
ISSN: 0022-1554,1551-5044
DOI: 10.1177/13.8.693