Nissln.

1895 Science 8 Feb. 167/2 The formalin sections of the central nervous system may also be used for Rehm's modification of Nissl's method.

1899 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 448 (heading) New Nissl method.

1901 Jrnl. Exper. Med. 5 551 The principles of Nissl's method are extremely simple.

1968 Brain 91 590 All the celloidin blocks were cut serially and at intervals of approximately ½ mm. Sections were stained by the Nissl method.

1997 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 94 14522/1 (caption) Brain morphology was analyzed on histological sections of embryos of different ages stained with cresyl violet (Nissl method).

1898 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 44 730 The Nissl bodies..which stain deeply with basic dyes.

1904 Proc. Royal Soc. 73 384 The Nissl's bodies lost their affinity for basic dyes [during anaesthesia].

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxxviii. 1068 (caption) A damaged nerve-cell in which the Nissl bodies are lost.

1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) xvi. 539 Notable are clusters of darkly staining materials, Nissl bodies; these contain large amounts of RNA and numerous ribosomes.

1898 Proc. Royal Soc. 63 477 Mr. F. H. Scott..has found that Nissl's granules also give a distinct reaction for phosphorus.

1901 Jrnl. Exper. Med. 5 554 He finds the Nissl granules embedded in a homogeneous coagulum-like mass.

1953 A. G. E. Pearse Histochem. xiv. 318 The basophilia of Nissl's granules in nerve cells was entirely lost after this treatment.

1980 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 208 429 It has been suggested that these small cells with little cytoplasm and few Nissl granules may be astroglia.

1899 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 191 315 Cells of the pallium. Nissl Stain. Showing cell clusters.

1905 G. M. Gould Dict. New Med. Terms 129/1 Staining with Nissl's stain (methylene-blue).

1943 O. S. Strong & A. Elwyn Human Neuroanat. iii. 28/1 The significance of the Nissl stain..lies in the fact that..each type of nerve cell always presents the same appearance or ‘equivalent picture’ in normal conditions.

1990 Jrnl. Neuroendocrinol. 2 868/2 (caption) Fig. 2 is a Nissl stain of a hemisection through the medulla.

1899 L. F. Barker Nerv. Syst. 110 He thinks it very wrong that these should be thrown all together and designated either ‘Nissl's substance’ or ‘tigroid substance’.

1933 Amer. Jrnl. Anat. 53 153 The cells are indeed very light; the Nissl substance is scanty.

1966 G. P. Wright & W. S. Symmers Systemic Pathol. II. xxxiv. 1147/1 In the cytoplasm of the neuron, certain polygonal, basiphile structures, known collectively as Nissl substance, are present.

1987 R. P. Saneto & J. de Vellis in A. J. Turner & H. S. Bachelard Neurochem. ii. 47 Neurones can be identified by polysomes containing regions (Nissl substance) and arrays of microtubules interspersed with neurofilaments.

1911 T. L. Stedman Pract. Med. Dict. 586/2 Nissl degeneration.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxxviii. 1069 These cellular changes are called Nissl's degeneration.

1974 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. ii. xxxiv. 33/2 The parent cell bodies undergo central chromatolysis (Nissl degeneration).