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==Nerve stuff==
==Nerve stuff==
===General===
===General===
*Biopsy: sural nerve.
*Most common biopsy: sural nerve.
*Myelin stain: blue = myelin.
 
*Gomori trichrome: axon = green, myelin = red.
===Stains===
Myelin stain:  
*Blue = myelin.
 
Gomori trichrome:  
*Axon = green.
*Myelin = red.
 
===Degenerative changes===
Types:<ref>URL: [http://missinglink.ucsf.edu/lm/ids_104_musclenerve_path/student_musclenerve/nervepath.html http://missinglink.ucsf.edu/lm/ids_104_musclenerve_path/student_musclenerve/nervepath.html]. Accessed on: 9 November 2010.</ref>
*Wallerian degeneration.
*Axonal degeneration.
*Segmental demyelination.
 
====Wallerian degeneration====
*Digestion chamber - '''key feature'''.
**Image: [http://missinglink.ucsf.edu/lm/ids_104_musclenerve_path/student_musclenerve/subpages/digchamb1.html Digestion chamber (missinglink.ucsf.edu)].


==See also==
==See also==
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