Staining Flashcards
Staining conn tissue and cytoplasm
Background stain
Counterstain
Eosin
Eosin types
Eosin Y (yellowish) - common Bluish (Eosin B, Erythrosin B) Ethyl Eosin (Eosin S, Eosin OH soluble)
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
Mayer’s hematoxylin
For diff or regressice staining
Use acid OH as diff agent
Iron hematoxylin soln
Diff of muscle fiber and conn tissue
Standard hematoxylin
Uses ferric Ammonium
Weigert’s soln
Uses ferric ammonium sulfate
Heidenhan’s soln
Mordant: 1% aqueous phosphotungatic acid
Paraffin, celloidin, frozen sections
PTAH Phosphotungstic acid hematoxylin
Red
Eosin Y B
Phioxine B
Cytoplasmic stain
Yellow
Picric acid
Orange G
Rose bengal
Cytoplasmic stain
Green
Light green sf
Lissamine green
Cytoplasmic stain
Red Neutral red Safranin O Hematoxylin Carmine
Nuclear stain
Toluidine blue
Nile blue
Celestine blue
Nuclear stain
Gold chloride
Silver nitrate
As precipitates and not absorbed
Metallic stain
Saffron
Hematoxylin
Orcein
Cochineal
Natural dye
Basic dye
Thizine and triphenylmethane group
Metachromatic dye
Methyl violet Crystal violet Cresyl blue retics Bismarck brown Safranin Basic fushin Toluidine blue Thionine Azure a b c Methylene blue
Metachromatic stains
Use of specific dyes
Diff particular subs
Metachromasia
For cartillage, conn tissue, eph mucis, mast cells, amyloid
Metachromatic staining
For conn tissue
Acid fuschin-picric acid
van gieson stain
Stains collagen, smooth muscle, mitochondria
Nuclear and cytoplasmic stain in mallory’s trichrome mtd
Acid fushin (masson stain)
Most commonly used supravital stain
Neutral red
For mitochondria
Janus green
For dead cells
Trypan blue
Toluidine blue
Thionine
Nile blue
Supravital (nucleus)
Carmine
Lithium
India ink
Intravital