The Mystery of the Golgi Stain

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From: Mark Robert Thorson
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 1990 21:45

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When I was in college, it was unknown why the Golgi stain only affects
about one neuron in a thousand.  This stain has been crucial to the
understanding of neural structure at the cellular level (because it allows
individual cells in a tissue to be viewed in isolation), yet at that
time its selectivity was a mystery.

I'm wondering whether this mystery has been solved.  Does anyone yet
know why the Golgi stain seems to pick cells at random, while leaving
the surrounding tissue unstained?

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