Gömöri trichrome stain is a
histological stain used on
muscle
Muscle is a soft tissue, one of the four basic types of animal tissue. There are three types of muscle tissue in vertebrates: skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, and smooth muscle. Muscle tissue gives skeletal muscles the ability to muscle contra ...
tissue.
It can be used to test for certain forms of
mitochondrial myopathy
Mitochondrial myopathies are types of myopathy, myopathies associated with mitochondrial disease. Adenosine triphosphate (Adenosine triphosphate, ATP), the chemical used to provide energy for the cell, cannot be produced sufficiently by oxidative ...
.
It is named for
George Gömöri, who developed it in 1950.
[GOMORI, G. - A rapid one-step trichrome stain. Am. J. Clin. Path. 20: 661-664, 1950.]
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Staining
1950 introductions
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