Negative Staining
"Negative Staining" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The technique of washing tissue specimens with a concentrated solution of a heavy metal salt and letting it dry. The specimen will be covered with a very thin layer of the metal salt, being excluded in areas where an adsorbed macromolecule is present. The macromolecules allow electrons from the beam of an electron microscope to pass much more readily than the heavy metal; thus, a reversed or negative image of the molecule is created.
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D016624
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.225.500.620.670.520 E01.370.225.750.600.670.520 E05.200.500.620.670.520 E05.200.750.600.670.520
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Negative Staining" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.