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The various known silver techniques for nerve fibres are classified into three groups. In the first a single silver salt is used. In the others two silver salts are used; these groups differ from each other in the sequence of staining.
Methods from each of the three groups were used to stain cutaneous nerve fibres. A modification of the second group was devised; it appears to give uniform and consistent staining of these axons.
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Fitzgerald, M.J.T. A protargol technique for the impregnation of cutaneous nerves. Ir J Med Sci 37, 287–291 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02957020
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