Table 3.

Silver staining of brain sections from multiple system atrophy (MSA) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients. Cerebellum was used for MSA cases 2, 3, 6, 7, brainstem for cases 4, 5 and basal ganglia for case 1. Substantia nigra was used for PD cases 1, 3, 4, 5 and cingulate cortex for case 2

Human tissue	Gallyas silver	Campbell-Switzer silver
(1) MSA-P	+	+
(2) MSA-P	+	+
(3) MSA-P	+	+
(4) MSA-P	+	+
(5) MSA-P	+	+
(6) MSA-C	+	+
(7) MSA-C	+	+
(1) PD	–	+
(2) PD	–	+
(3) PD	–	+
(4) PD	–	+
(5) PD	–	+