Classifying Nervous Tissue Staining Methods

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Classifying Nervous Tissue Staining Methods

Nervous tissue histologically consists of cells and cell processes. As such, the stains for demonstrating nervous tissue components are classified into three groups:
  1. Neuronal cell bodies and processes
  2. Glial cells and processes
  3. Myelin