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The use of selected area electron diffraction in the high voltage electron microscope permits the identification of the crystalline rapid Golgi precipitate within single nerve fibers in nervous tissue. Spot diffraction patterns and ring patterns show the impregnation to be silver chromate,Ag2CrO4. This is confirmed by cobalt Debye-Scherrer X-ray diffraction.
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Supported in part by USPHS Research Grants NS03659, NS10536, and Training Grant NS05591 from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, and by NIH Contract 70-4136.
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Chan-Palay, V. A brief note on the chemical nature of the precipitate within nerve fibers after the rapid Golgi reaction: Selected area diffraction in high voltage electron microscopy. Z. Anat. Entwickl. Gesch. 139, 115–117 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00523632
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00523632