Stains & molecular markers
Elastic fibers
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PubMed Search: Elastic fibers [title] stain
Elastic fibers
Author: Nat Pernick, M.D.
Topic Completed: 1 June 2005
Minor changes: 15 December 2020
Copyright: 2002-2021, PathologyOutlines.com, Inc.
PubMed Search: Elastic fibers [title] stain
Cite this page: Pernick N. Elastic fibers. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/stainselastic.html. Accessed May 6th, 2021.
Definition / general
- Also called Verfoeff-van Gieson
- Stains elastic fibers black
- Outlines elastic lamina of muscular arteries and media of aorta
- Background is trichrome
Microscopic (histologic) images
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Normal aorta
