Renal biopsy, silver stain

Micrograph from a needle-biopsy of the cortex of the kidney (thumbnail at right), stained with silver to demonstrate basement membrane (the thin blue-black line) beneath the epithelium of renal tubules. 

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Last updated:  26 August 2003 / dgk