SUMMARY

A newly developed staining technique of body slices is helpful because of the difficulty in dif-ferentiating the various structures such as liga-ments, connective tissue, muscle etc, especially in thin slices, which allows comparison with high resolution MRI. In this study, both already plastinated slices and slices to be plasti-nated were stained. The already plastinated slices were first ground, and then stained. After staining, the bone stained pink; muscles – green; cartilage – violet; connective tissue – blue-violet. Conversely, native sawn slices were first stained and then plastinated with E12/E1 using the advanced slice plastination tech-nique, providing the first possibility to obtain stained plastinates made by slice plastination. They are below 1 mm thin and can be made from any part in the body. In these slices, the skin, ligaments and connective tissue stained reddish pink and the bone marrow – green, while the muscles remained brownish. The method of staining native body slices with sub-sequent plastination is simple and rapid and affords a better differentiation of structures