Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!portal!cup.portal.com!mmm
From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: The Mystery of the Golgi Stain
Message-ID: <36585@cup.portal.com>
Date: 5 Dec 90 21:45:14 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Lines: 9

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?


Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com