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OTHER COMMON STAINS Flashcards

1
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– is a mixture of picric acid and fuchsin for the demonstration of connective tissues.

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Acid Fuchsin-Picric Acid (Van Gieson’s Stain)

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– is a basic acridine fluorochrome which permits discrimination between dead and living cells

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Acridine Orange

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– giving fluorescence for DNA and a red fluorescence for RNA.

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Acridine Orange

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– Is used to demonstrate deposits of calcium salts and possible sites of phosphatase activity.

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Acridine Red 3B

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5
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– Is a complex, water-soluble phthalocyanin dye, similar to chlorophyll, which stains acid
mucopolysaccharides by forming salts linkages with them.

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Alcian Blue

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6
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Alcian Blue is a complex, water-soluble phthalocyanin dye, similar to chlorophyll, which stains ________

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acid mucopolysaccharides by forming salts linkages with them.

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7
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– Is a cytoplasmic stain used for counterstaining of epithelial sections.

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Aniline Blue

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8
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– Is a plasma stain utilized also for deep staining of acid-fast organisms, for mitochondria, for
differentiation of smooth muscles with the used of picric acid

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Basic Fuchsin

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9
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– It is main constituents of Feulgen’s (DNA) and Schiff’s reagent for the detection of aldehydes, Van Gieson’s solution for connective tissues, mucin, and for elastic tissue staining.

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Basic Fuchsin

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10
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– Is used as a contrast stain for Gram’s technique, in acid fast and Papanicolau method, and for
staining diphtheria

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Bismarck Brown

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– Is usually combined with aluminum chloride to stain glycogen (Best Carmine Solution)

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Carmine

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12
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– Mayer’s Carmalum Solution

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Carmine

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13
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– Is a mordanted dye acting as a basic dye and staining acidic substances.

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Carmine

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14
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– resistant to strong acid dyes

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Celestine Blue

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15
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– recommended for routine staining of fixed sections, giving a good nuclear definition when used in conjunction with alum hematoxylin.

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Celestine blue

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16
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– Is best known as an indicator, but may be utilized as a stain for axis cylinders embryos.

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Congo Red

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17
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– it is used as a 4% aqueaous solution in Kajian’s method of staining elastic tissues, amyloid and
myelin

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Congo red

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18
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– Is a nuclear or chromatin stain used for staining amyloid in frozen sections and platelets in blood .

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Crystal Violet

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19
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– Crystal Violet + Methyl Violet + Dexterin = Gentian Violet

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Crystal violet

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20
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– is used for staining blood to differentiates leukocytes

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Giemsa Stain

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21
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– Gold sublimate

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Giemsa Stain

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22
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– Is the stained used for metallic impregnation, made up of gold chloride and mercuric chloride

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Giemsa stain

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23
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– It is used for microscopic study of starch granules

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Giemsa stain

24
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– It is used for removal of mercuric fixative artifact pigments

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Giemsa stain

25
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– Reagents to alter crystal and methyl violet so that they may retained by certain bacteria and fungi.

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Giemsa stain

26
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– Is used for demonstrating mitochondria during intravital staining.

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Janus Green B

27
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– It is used as a contrast stain for staining ascaris eggs and erythrocytes, and as a bacterial spore stain.

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Malachite Green

28
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– It is also used both as a decolorizer and as a counter stain

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Malachite green

29
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– Stains chromatin green in the presence of an acid.

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Methyl Green

30
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– It gives false positive reaction with certain secretions as mucin

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Methyl green

31
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– is a metachromatic dye formed whenever methylene blue is heated in fixed alkali carbonate

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Methylene Violet

32
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coloring nuclei of leukocytes reddish-purple in the presence of methylene blue.

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Methylene violet

33
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– Is a basic dye recommended for observing cell granules and vacuoles of phagocytic cell.

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Neutral Red

34
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– Used as a substitute for carbol fuchsin in acid-fast staining

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Night Blue

35
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– Is an excellent stain for elastic fibers (Tanzer Unna Orcein Method)

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Orcein

36
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– especially recommended in dermatological studies

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Orcein

37
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– a fixative and it is also used to stain fats

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Osmium Tetroxide

38
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Fats reduces Osmium tetroxide into_______

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Osmium dioxide (Black)

39
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– Contrast stain to acid fuchsin

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Picric Acid

40
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– Demonstration of connective tissue 
– Cytoplasmic stain 
– Counterstain to violet
– Fixative 
– Decalcifying agent
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Picric acid

41
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  • Utilized to manufacture paints
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Prussian Blue

42
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  • Microanatomical color contrast
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prussian blue

43
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  • Demonstration of circulatory system by injection
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Prussian blue

44
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– Used with osmic acid to fix and stain blood and glandular

– Silver Nitrate

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Rhodamine B

45
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– Is used in 10% aqueous solution to prepare various dilutions to be used in identification of spirochetes, reticulum and other fiber stains

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Rhodamine B

46
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– Is a nuclear stain for fixed tissues, used as a substitute for thionine in fresh frozen tissue sections

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Toluidine Blue

47
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– It is recommended for staining of Nissl granules or chromophile bodies

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Toluidine Blue

48
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– Is used for demonstration of neuroglia in frozen sections.

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Victoria Blue

49
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OIL SOLUBLE DYES

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LYSOCHROMES

50
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LYSOCHROMES

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  • Sudan Black
  • Sudan Black B
  • Sudan IV
  • Sudan III
51
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  • most sensitive of the oil soluble dyes
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Sudan Black

52
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  • greater affinity to phospholipids
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Sudan Black

53
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  • stains Phospholipids and neutral fats
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Sudan Black B

54
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  • do not stain crystalline cholesterol and free fatty acids
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Sudan Black B

55
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  • does not color phospholipids, lipid droplets
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Sudan IV

56
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  • recommended for triglycerides
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Sudan IV

57
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good as a fat stain for CNS tissues

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Sudan III

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