A modified aluminum-formaldehyde (ALFA) histofluorescence method for enhanced visualization of central techolamine.
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Japan Society of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry in ACTA HISTOCHEMICA ET CYTOCHEMICA
- Vol. 14 (4) , 350-355
- https://doi.org/10.1267/ahc.14.350
Abstract
We designed a modification of the aluminum-formaldehyde (ALFA) histofluorescence method based on preperfusion with buffer containing formaldehyde (FA). This modified ALFA technique enables visualization of all catecholamine (CA) neuron systems with a sensitivity comparable to that of the previously published glyoxlic acid (GA)-Vibratome method, providing better reproducibility and facility of the procedure than the ALFA method.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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