Elastic elements in the media and adventitia of human intracranial extracerebral arteries.
- 1 July 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Stroke
- Vol. 11 (4) , 329-336
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.str.11.4.329
Abstract
We find that the media and adventitia of adult human cerebral arteries contain elastic fibers forming a dense, coherent network, similar to that found in muscular arteries of the same size in other organs. The external elastic layer in the adult human is masked for the currently employed staining methods. By treatment with 90% formic acid before fixation, the original staining character of elastic tissue can be restored. The light microscopic and scanning electron microscopic features of this network of elastic fibers are presented.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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