However, when Erbacher looked at skin tissue under the microscope, he noticed that nerve fibers did not just grow around skin cells but, to the whole team’s surprise, tunneled straight through them.

A nerve biopsy involves the process of removing a small length of a peripheral nerve for histologic examination under the microscope. Several nerves can ... include semi-thin sections and teased nerve ...

Sweat gland nerve fiber density (SGNFD) was assessed by staining tissue with PGP 9.5 (Figure 1) and counting the fibers manually in sections viewed with a light microscope. The technique clearly ...