[Histonet] RE: Reticulum Vs Reticulin

[Cesar Francisco Romero]

Reticulum
means Net ( Red in Spanish or Web in English ).

It refers
to the Net that exist in Lymphoid tissue of any kind ( Payer Patches – Lymph Nodes
– Spleen ).

Dendritic
Cells attach to this Net, that’s why in the past it was used the term Reticulum
Cells Sarcoma ( for Dendritic Cells Sarcoma ).

Reticulin (
Reticulina in Spanish ) is the Silver Technic for Staining this Type III Collagen
Fibers of the Net.