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Staining Flashcards

1
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Staining conn tissue and cytoplasm

Background stain

Counterstain

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Eosin

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2
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Eosin types

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Eosin Y (yellowish) - common
Bluish (Eosin B, Erythrosin B)
Ethyl Eosin (Eosin S, Eosin OH soluble)
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3
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Useful as progressive stain

Nuclear stain

Demonstrate cytoplasmic glycogen

Used when acid-OH diff might destroy/decolorize cytoplasmic comp

Used in Celestine Blue hemalum mtd nuclear staining

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Mayer’s hematoxylin

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4
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For diff or regressice staining

Use acid OH as diff agent

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Iron hematoxylin soln

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5
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Diff of muscle fiber and conn tissue

Standard hematoxylin

Uses ferric Ammonium

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Weigert’s soln

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6
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Uses ferric ammonium sulfate

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Heidenhan’s soln

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7
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Mordant: 1% aqueous phosphotungatic acid

Paraffin, celloidin, frozen sections

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PTAH Phosphotungstic acid hematoxylin

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8
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Red
Eosin Y B
Phioxine B

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Cytoplasmic stain

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9
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Yellow
Picric acid
Orange G
Rose bengal

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Cytoplasmic stain

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10
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Green
Light green sf
Lissamine green

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Cytoplasmic stain

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11
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Red
Neutral red
Safranin O
Hematoxylin
Carmine
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Nuclear stain

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12
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Toluidine blue
Nile blue
Celestine blue

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Nuclear stain

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13
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Gold chloride
Silver nitrate

As precipitates and not absorbed

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Metallic stain

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14
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Saffron
Hematoxylin
Orcein
Cochineal

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Natural dye

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15
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Basic dye

Thizine and triphenylmethane group

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Metachromatic dye

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16
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Methyl violet
Crystal violet
Cresyl blue retics
Bismarck brown
Safranin
Basic fushin
Toluidine blue
Thionine
Azure a b c
Methylene blue
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Metachromatic stains

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17
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Use of specific dyes

Diff particular subs

Metachromasia

For cartillage, conn tissue, eph mucis, mast cells, amyloid

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Metachromatic staining

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18
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For conn tissue

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Acid fuschin-picric acid

van gieson stain

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19
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Stains collagen, smooth muscle, mitochondria

Nuclear and cytoplasmic stain in mallory’s trichrome mtd

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Acid fushin (masson stain)

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20
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Most commonly used supravital stain

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Neutral red

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21
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For mitochondria

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Janus green

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22
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For dead cells

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Trypan blue

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23
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Toluidine blue
Thionine
Nile blue

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Supravital (nucleus)

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24
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Carmine
Lithium
India ink

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Intravital

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25
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Anilline or coal tar dyes

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Synthetic dye

26
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Discrimination bw dead and living cells

DNA Green fluorescence
RNA Red

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Acridine orange

27
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Demonstrates Ca salts and possible site of phospatase act

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Acridine Red 3B

28
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Stains acid mucopolysaccharides

Excellent striking blue color

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Alcian blue

29
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Orange red lake w/Ca at pH4.2

Used on Dupont ACA analyzer measure serum Ca

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Alizarin Red S

30
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Counterstaining eph sections

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Aniline blue

31
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Plasma stain

For AFOrganism, mitochondria, diff of smooth muscle w/picric acid

Main constituent of Feulgen’s acid and Schiff’s rgt - aldehydes

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Basic fuschin

32
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For conn tissue, mucin, elastic tissue

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Van gieson’s soln

33
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For staining hgb

34
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Contrast stain for gram’s tech
In acid fast
In pap mtd
For diptheria organism

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Bismarck brown

35
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For fresh materials in smear prep

Det presence of metal ions eg Al

36
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Mordanted dye

Acts as basic dye and stains acid subs

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Carmalum (mayer’s soln)

37
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Alt to iron hematox

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Celestine blue

38
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Best known as indicator

Stain for axis cylinders in embryos

Identify chon depo (amyloid)

39
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In histo for nervous tissue

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Cresyl violet

40
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Stains amyloid in frozen sections and plts

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Crystal violet

41
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For metallic impregnation

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Gold sublimate

42
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Oldest stain

43
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Identify and diff bacteria

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Gram’s iodine

44
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Decolorizer
Counterstain

Weakly basic dye
Contrast stain for ascaris eggs and rbc

Bacterial spore stain

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Malachite green

45
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Formed by boiling nile blue w/sulfuric acid

For living cells

Accumulates in lipid globules inside cells - red

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Nile red (nile blue oxazone)

46
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More soluble in fat than H2O or OH

For neutral lipids

47
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For elastic fibers

In derma studies

Finest and most delicate skin fiber demonstration

48
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Selective stain for unsaturated lipids
For lipoCHONs
Myelin=black

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Osmic acid
Osmium tetroxide (OsO4)
49
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All around stain
Glycogen
Mucin
MucoCHON
GlyCHON
Basement memb
Capsules
Blood vessels
Fungi
Intra carbs glycogen in hepatocytes
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Periodic acid schiff

50
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Common neg stain for viruses, nerves, polysaccharides

For striated muscle fibers
Mitochondria = blue

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Phosphotungstic acid

51
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Contrast stain to acid fuschin
Cytoplasmic stain
Counterstain to crystal violet
Tissue fixative
Decalcifying agent
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Picrid acid

52
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Used w/ osmic acid to fix and stain blood and glandular tissues

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Rhodamine B

53
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Most senstive

Greater affinity to phospholipids than others lysochromes

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Sudan black

54
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Not real dyes

Do not have auxochrome groups

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Lysochromes (Oil soluble dyes)

55
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No 2ndary amino grp
Does not color phospholipids
For TAG

56
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First introduced
Fat soluble
Good fat stain for CNS

57
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Binds collagen in EM = pink

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Van gieson stain

58
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For neuroglia in frozen section

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Victoria blue

59
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Silver reduction mtd
For phosphates and carbonates
Usually present along Ca

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Von kossa stain

60
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Causes blood cells to exhibit 4 major staining properties

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Wright stain

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