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Evolution of staining methods for skeletal muscle fiber types



This article documents the evolution of different staining methods for skeletal muscle fiber types





Keywords: Skeletal muscle; fiber types; myosin ATPase; NADH-TR, immunostaining; myosin heavy chain (MyHC)

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD): histopathology and proteomic biomarkers



Histopathological features and proteomic analysis of DMD.





Keywords: Duchenne muscular dystrophy; dystropinopathy; skeletal muscle; muscle degeneration

Pericytes: Form and function



Role of the pericyte in capillary blood flow regulation.





Keywords: Pericyte; Neurovascular unit; Alpha smooth muscle actin, Blood flow regulation; contractile proteins; blood brain barrier; blood retina barrier;

Mtb bacterial aggregates augment pulmonary disease pathology



Bacterial aggregates rather than similar numbers of single bacilli exacerbate Mycobacterium tuberculosis disease pathology in rabbit lungs.





Keywords: Mycobacterium tuberculosis; bacillary aggregation; aggregation state; pulmonary disease; pulmonary disease pathology.

Image analysis of H&E-stained tissue sections: a tool for assessing and verifying staining quality




Evaluation of precision of hematoxylin and eosin stain using optical density-based image analysis





Keywords:


hematoxylin and eosin; quality control; optical density; image analysis; staining; precision; reproducibility


Novel finding of unrecognized interstitium in human tissues

Anatomy and histology of a previously unrecognized fluid-filled space (interstitium) within and between tissues revealed by confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE). Keywords: interstitium; fluid-filled space; probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE); real-time imaging; in vivo microscopy

Histological preparation and microscopy of stented vessels following percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty or PTCA

Technical limitations of histological study of stented vascular tissue and the use of FIDSAM technology to overcome auto-fluorescence in fluorescently labeled tissue.


Keywords: Stent, artery, immunohistochemistry, fluorescence, microscopy.

The structure and histology of skeletal muscle

This article describes the structure, histologic features, and ultra structural features of normal adult human skeletal muscle.


Keywords: Skeletal muscle; frozen section; paraffin section; structure; histology; special stains.