| dc.description.abstract | Summary
In the first part of this series, the authors described the main milestones of Gyula
Magyary-Kossa’s path of life, the history of teaching veterinary pharmacology in
Hungary, the foundation of the Institute of Pharmacology and the decisive role
that Magyary-Kossa played in it. Part 2 presents the ‘von Kossa reaction’, a microtechnical
reaction developed by him and used all over the world to detect calcium
deposits and quantify mineralization in tissue sections. The authors describe the
‘von Kossa reaction’ and the studies performed by its use in detail and then give an
outline of the classical histochemical methods and their present-day applications.
By performing searches in different databases and collecting the citations made
to the original publications of different authors and their methods, the authors
confirm that the ‘von Kossa reaction’, originally described in 1901, has not sunk
into oblivion up to the present day. Rather, it is still used often, like many other
easy-to-use and specific, classical histochemical procedures developed around
the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. They present the comparative data of 16
classical histochemical procedures in table (designation of the staining procedure,
author, year of publication, country of origin, main area of use, number of citations,
and distribution of citations by year in the past 20 years). | en_US |
