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At the end of the last century Ehrlich (1886) discovered that injection of a methylene blue solution into an animal’s circulatory system could stain nerve cells and their processes blue. Thereafter histologists began to use methylene blue in preference to any other method of staining, particularly for the peripheral nervous system of insects (Monti, 1893, 1894; Holmgren, 1895, 1896; Rath, 1896; Duboscq, 1898)
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Plotnikova, S.I., Nevmyvaka, G.A. (1980). The Methylene Blue Technique: Classic and Recent Applications to the Insect Nervous System. In: Strausfeld, N.J., Miller, T.A. (eds) Neuroanatomical Techniques. Springer Series in Experimental Entomology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6018-9_1
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