FIGURE 2.

Elastin staining in neck and immediately below a terminal anagen hair follicle in human scalp A, C, and in the stelae beneath, a miniaturised hair follicle in human scalp showing several elastic “Arao‐Perkins” bodies distributed as a ladder, B. The image in A shows a terminal anagen HF stained for elastin using orcein‐haematoxylin in iodised ferric chloride, counterstained with metanil yellow, showing the elastin‐containing “plug” at the base of the anagen follicle. (Reproduced with permission from Arao and Perkins 1967; Reference [7], ×100). B, C show elastin staining using acid alcoholic orcein and Giemsa solutions as described by Pinkus 1978 and reproduced from reference [8] with permission. B × 100, C × 200