TY - JOUR
T1 - Innervation of Transplanted Kidney
AU - Weitsen, Howard A.
AU - Gazdar, A. F.
AU - Dammin, G. J.
PY - 1970/11/26
Y1 - 1970/11/26
N2 - After reading the paper by Gazdar and Dammin in the Journal (283:222–224, 1970), I believe a few comments regarding technic are in order. The authors, in their excellent study of human renal neural degeneration and regeneration after transplantation, used a modified Bodian silver stain. Unfortunately, they did not make use of either fluorescence histochemistry or histochemical staining of acetylcholinesterase, which sensitively and specifically demonstrate adrenergic and cholinergic neurons. The authors used autopsy specimens on which these technics cannot be applied. With these histochemical methods Norvell and I1,2 found neuronal degeneration much sooner than Gazdar and Dammin did;.
AB - After reading the paper by Gazdar and Dammin in the Journal (283:222–224, 1970), I believe a few comments regarding technic are in order. The authors, in their excellent study of human renal neural degeneration and regeneration after transplantation, used a modified Bodian silver stain. Unfortunately, they did not make use of either fluorescence histochemistry or histochemical staining of acetylcholinesterase, which sensitively and specifically demonstrate adrenergic and cholinergic neurons. The authors used autopsy specimens on which these technics cannot be applied. With these histochemical methods Norvell and I1,2 found neuronal degeneration much sooner than Gazdar and Dammin did;.
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM197011262832218
DO - 10.1056/NEJM197011262832218
M3 - Letter
C2 - 4919593
AN - SCOPUS:0014964020
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 283
SP - 1227
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 22
ER -