Abstract
Relato de modificação da técnica criostático-histoquímica para a verificação da fluorescência das catecolaminas e da serotonina em secções de tecido nervoso central e periférico. São discutidas as vantagens desta modificação técnica em relação a outras propostas para a mesma finalidade.
Histochemical observations of fluorescent biogenic amines in cryostat sections of peripheral and central nervous tissue
Verificação histoquímica de aminas biogênicas fluorescentes em secções criostáticas de tecido nervoso central e periférico
O. Duarte-Escalante; J. P. Pickett; R. E. Pendergrass
Department of Psychiatry and Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
RESUMO
Relato de modificação da técnica criostático-histoquímica para a verificação da fluorescência das catecolaminas e da serotonina em secções de tecido nervoso central e periférico. São discutidas as vantagens desta modificação técnica em relação a outras propostas para a mesma finalidade.
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Mailing address: O. Duarte-Escalante, M. D. Duke University Medical Center Box 2922 Durham, North Carolina 27706 U.S.A.
The research reported in this paper was done while the senior author was supported in part by a Post-Doctoral Research Training Fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health, Grant No. 5tl-MH 8394-02 and 2F11 NB 2006-02 NSRA at the Department of Psychiatry and Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
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