A New Method For Scanning Electron Microscopic Visualization Of Dermal Elastic Fibres
- 1 March 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Microscopy
- Vol. 115 (2), 165-173
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2818.1979.tb00166.x
Abstract
Autoclaving sections of dermis for 8 h followed by fixation, dehydration and xylol‐air drying yields a pure preparation of elastic fibres for scanning electron microscopy which retains the native architecture of this component. Elastic fibres were intertwined in a complex fashion with numerous branches. Fibres were predominantly cylindrical in the upper dermis and became larger and more elliptical in the deeper dermis. This method produces a means to study the organization of elastic fibres in a variety of disorders in which dermal changes are prominent.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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