Special Stains Flashcards
(40 cards)
1
Q
Acid phosphatase
A
Prostate
2
Q
Alcian Blue
A
mucin, sialomucins, hyaluronic acid, sulfated mucosubstances
3
Q
Alizarin red S
A
Calcium
4
Q
Best’s Carmine
A
Glycogen
5
Q
Bielschowsky’s silver
A
axons
6
Q
Congo red
A
amyloid
7
Q
Direct fast scarlet
A
?? amyloid
8
Q
Cresyl violet
A
Nissl substance
9
Q
Dunn-Thompson
A
Hemoglobin
10
Q
Feulgen
A
DNA
11
Q
Fontana-Masson
A
melanin
12
Q
Giemsa
A
mast cells
13
Q
Gordon and Sweets
A
Reticulin fibers
14
Q
Griemelius
A
argyrophilic granules
15
Q
Hall’s
A
bile/ bilverdin
16
Q
Jone’s methenamine
A
basement membrane
17
Q
Kinyoun’s
A
Lipofuscin
18
Q
modified Ziehl-Neelsen
A
lipofuscin
19
Q
Luxol fast blue
A
myelin
20
Q
Mallory’s PTAH
A
muscle, fibrin, glial processes
21
Q
Masson’s Trichrome
A
collagen, muscle
22
Q
Mayer’s mucicarmine
A
mucin, hyaluronic acid, chondroitin sulfate
23
Q
Methyl green pyronin
A
nucleic acids
24
Q
Morin’s
A
Aluminum
25
New methylene blue
ribosomes in immature RBC
26
Oil Red O
fat/ lipid
27
Periodic acid-Schiff (PAS)
glycogen, mucin, mucus
28
Prussian blue
iron
29
Rubeanic acid
copper
30
Schmorl's Reaction
melanin, lipofuscin
31
Sudan Black B
fat
32
Toluidine Blue
Mast cell granules
33
Verhoeff
Elastic fibers
34
Von Kossa
Calcium
35
Mucin
PAS, Alcian blue, Mayer's mucicarmine
36
Fat
Sudan Black, Oil red O
37
Diastase
will digest glycogen???
38
Phosphotungstic acid haematoxylin (PTAH)
striated muscle fibers, mitochondria, glial cells
39
Myeloperoxidase
neutrophils
40
van Gieson's
muscle?
