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Ultrastructural analysis of preparations impregnated with silver salts

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Tissue sections from the juxtacardial segments of the pulmonary veins and venae cavae of dogs impregnated with silver salts by the Kampos method were studied. An electron-microscopic investigation showed that the reduced silver adsorbed by the tissue of the impregnated preparations had a granular structure, with single granules ranging from 30 to 400 Å in diameter. The largest granules were found in the axoplasm of myelinated and unmyelinated nerve fibers, and the small granules were in various cellular and fibrous components of the tissue substrate. As a rule no silver granules were found in the substance of the myelin sheath. The patterns of adsorption and distribution of the silver granules in the impregnated preparations explain the morphological manifestations of the phenomenon of argentophilia.

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  1. E. B. Khaisman
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  2. O. V. Alekseev
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Khaisman, E.B., Alekseev, O.V. Ultrastructural analysis of preparations impregnated with silver salts. Bull Exp Biol Med 81, 101–104 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00800182

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