Is there still room for novelty, in histochemical papers?

Submitted: 11 December 2016
Accepted: 15 December 2016
Published: 16 December 2016
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Histochemistry continues to be widely applied in biomedical research, being nowadays mostly addressed to detect and locate single molecules or molecular complexes inside cells and tissues, and to relate structural organization and function at the high resolution of the more advanced microscopical techniques. In the attempt to see whether histochemical novelties may be found in the recent literature, the articles published in the European Journal of Histochemistry in the period 2014-2016 have been reviewed. In the majority of the published papers, standardized methods have been preferred by scientists to make their results reliably comparable with the data in the literature, but  many papers (approximately one fourth of the published articles) described novel histochemical methods and procedures.  It is worth noting that there is a growing interest for minimally-invasive in vivo techniques (magnetic resonance imaging, autofluorescence spectroscopy) which may parallel conventional  histochemical analyses to obtain information not only on the morphological features of living organs and tissues, but also on their functional, biophysical and molecular characteristics. Thanks to this unceasing methodological refinement, histochemistry will continue to provide innovative applications in the biomedical field.

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Carlo Pellicciari, University of Pavia
Department of Biology and Biotechnology "Lazzaro Spallanzani"

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Pellicciari, C. (2016). Is there still room for novelty, in histochemical papers?. European Journal of Histochemistry, 60(4). https://doi.org/10.4081/ejh.2016.2758

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