mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) (12/06/90)
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?