ULTRA DUPER SUPER RUSH MODE Flashcards
(113 cards)
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What stain type uses a single dye to color acidic cell structures
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Direct staining
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What stain type uses a dye enhanced by a mordant
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Indirect staining
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What stain type stains structures a different color than the dye itself
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Metachromatic staining
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What stain type outlines structures without entering them
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Negative staining
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What stain type selectively stains living cells
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Vital staining
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What stain type involves dye injection into a living body
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Intravital staining
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What stain type is used for living cells removed from the body
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Supravital staining
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What stain type stains until a desired intensity is reached
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Progressive staining
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What stain type overstains then differentiates
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Regressive staining
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What stain type uses multiple dyes to distinguish structures
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Differential staining
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What stain type reduces metal salts to black deposits
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Metallic impregnation
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What stain is used to color nuclei blue or purple
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Hematoxylin
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What stain colors cytoplasm and connective tissue pink or red
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Eosin
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What stain colors glycogen mucin fungi and basement membranes magenta
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PAS
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What stain is used for lipids in fresh or frozen sections
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Sudan stains ((Black B, III, IV, Oil Red O)
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What stain detects amyloid with apple green birefringence under polarized light
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Congo red
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What stain differentiates muscle collagen and nuclei with distinct colors
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Masson’s trichrome
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What stain highlights collagen red and muscle yellow
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Van Gieson
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What stain is used for blood smears and some pathogens
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Giemsa
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What stain highlights mast cells cartilage and mucin with metachromasia
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Toluidine blue
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What stain is specific for acid mucopolysaccharides and mucins
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Alcian blue
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What stain colors epithelial mucins red
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Mucicarmine
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What stain highlights reticular fibers black
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Reticulin silver stains
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What stain is used for elastic fibers staining them black
Verhoeff’s
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What stain stains elastic fibers and sulfated mucins purple
Gomori’s aldehyde fuchsin
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What stain demonstrates basement membranes in black
Jones methenamine silver
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What fluorescent dye shows DNA green and RNA red
Acridine orange
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What stain is used for mitochondria demonstration
Janus green B
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What stain is a contrast stain for ascaris eggs and erythrocytes
Malachite green
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What stain is used for detection of calcium salts and phosphatase activity
Acridine red 3B
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What stain is used to demonstrate reticulum fibers
Silver nitrate
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What stain is an oxazine dye used as nuclear stain alternative
Celestine blue
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What stain is used to stain neuroglia in frozen sections
Victoria blue
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What stain identifies elastic fibers with blue-black color
Weigert’s elastic stain
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What stain stains acid fast organisms and mitochondria
Basic fuchsin
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What stain used for muscle striations and fibrin
Mallory’s phosphotungstic acid hematoxylin (PTAH)
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What stain is used for skeletal and cardiac muscle striations
PTAH
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What stain stains collagen blue and muscle red in frozen muscle biopsies
Gomori’s trichrome
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What stain stains calcium deposits orange-red
Alizarin red S
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What stain used as counterstain for connective tissue
Aniline blue
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What stain stains nuclei deep red and cytoplasm pale red
Azocarmine
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What stain is used to demonstrate elastic fibers in skin
Orcein
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What stain stains unsaturated lipids black
Osmium tetroxide
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What stain stains neutral lipids red in frozen sections
Oil Red O
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What stain stains phospholipids and free fatty acids blue and red
Nile blue sulfate
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What stain is a metachromatic stain for mast cell granules and cartilage
Toluidine blue
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What stain stains acid mucins blue and nuclei red
Alcian blue
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What stain is combined with PAS to differentiate acid and neutral mucins
Alcian blue PAS
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What stain stains glycogen bright red
Best’s carmine
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What stain is used for staining blood iron deposits
Prussian blue
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What stain is used to stain connective tissue red and muscle yellow
Van Gieson stain
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What stain is used for amyloid detection with purple color
Crystal violet
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What stain is used for negative staining of viruses and nerve
Phosphotungstic acid
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What stain used in Gram’s staining as mordant
Lugol’s iodine
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What stain identifies bacteria as gram positive or negative
Gram’s iodine
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What stain is used for fat soluble dyes
Sudan Black B
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What stain stains neutral triglycerides red
Sudan IV
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What stain stains lipids orange-red
Sudan III
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What stain stains lipids red and nuclei blue
Oil Red O
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What stain stains connective tissue fibers and collagen
Mallory’s aniline blue
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What stain is a modification of Movat pentachrome for mucin and connective tissue
Movat pentachrome stain
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What stain stains fibrin and erythrocytes in muscle
MSB stain
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What stain is used for chromatin green and RNA pink
Methyl green pyronin
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What stain is a fluorescent red-orange DNA stain used in gel electrophoresis
Ethidium bromide
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What stain is a nuclear stain formed by mixture of crystal violet and methyl violet
Gentian violet
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What stain is used to detect glycogen storage diseases in muscle biopsies
PAS
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What stain identifies phosphates and carbonates with silver reduction
Von Kossa stain
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What stain is used for identifying lipid-rich debris in multiple sclerosis macrophages
Oil Red O
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What stain is used to stain elastic fibers black with basic fuchsin and resorcin
Weigert’s elastic stain
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What hematoxylin stain is an alum hematoxylin recommended for progressive and regressive staining
Ehrlich’s hematoxylin
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What hematoxylin stain is chemically ripened with mercuric oxide and good for regressive nuclear staining
Harris’s hematoxylin
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What hematoxylin stain is chemically ripened with sodium iodate and used for regressive and progressive staining
Mayer’s hematoxylin
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What hematoxylin stain is a non-selective regressive stain that stains muscle striations and chromosomes
Heidenhain’s hematoxylin
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What hematoxylin stain uses phosphotungstic acid as mordant and stains muscle striations blue and collagen red
Tungsten hematoxylin
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What hematoxylin stain uses phosphomolybdic acid as mordant and stains collagen violet to black
Molybdenum hematoxylin
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What hematoxylin stain was historically used for demonstrating endocrine granules and gastrin cells
Lead hematoxylins
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What hematoxylin stain without mordant is used to demonstrate minerals like lead iron, and copper,
Hematoxylin without mordant
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What dye stains connective tissue with picric acid and acid fuchsin in Van Gieson stain
Acid Fuchsin-Picric Acid
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What stain is used to stain mitochondria during intravital staining
Janus green B
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What weakly basic dye is used as counterstain and for bacterial spore staining
Malachite green
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What dye demonstrates calcium salt deposits and possible phosphatase activity
Acridine Red 3B
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What nuclear stain alternative is an oxazine dye resistant to acid dyes
Celestine blue
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What stain is used for neuroglia demonstration in frozen sections
Victoria blue
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What stain is a metallic impregnation stain with gold chloride and mercuric chloride
Gold sublimate
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What stain is used to remove mercuric fixative artifacts and alters crystal violet retention
Iodine
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What iodine solution used as mordant in Gram staining
Lugol’s iodine
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What fluorescent red-orange stain intercalates DNA and is used in gel electrophoresis
Ethidium bromide
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What stain mixture of crystal violet methyl violet and dextrin stains amyloid and platelets
Gentian violet
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What stain is used to detect fibrin, muscle striations, neuroglia and amoebae in blue with PTAH,
Mallory’s phosphotungstic acid hematoxylin
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What stain differentiates acidophilic extracellular fibers from cytoplasm in connective tissue
Mallory’s aniline blue
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What stain is a one-step connective tissue fiber and plasma stain with chromotrope and fast green
Gomori’s one-step trichrome
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What stain identifies calcium in tissues with orange-red lake at pH 4.2
Alizarin red S
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What stain is a histochemical stain that highlights glycogen in muscle and liver
Best’s carmine
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What stain is used to detect acid mucopolysaccharides in tissues with metachromasia
Azure A
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What stain is a fluorescent stain that temporarily stains acid mucopolysaccharides black and fungi greenish red
Fluorescent acridine orange
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What stain is a picrofuchsin mixture used in connective tissue staining
Van Gieson’s picro-fuchsin
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What stain is used for negative staining of viruses and polysaccharides
Phosphotungstic acid
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What stain is used to stain elastic fibers dark brown in skin sections
Taenzer-Unna Orcein method
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What stain identifies fibrinoid material in tissue
Picro-Mallory method
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What stain is a modification of Movat pentachrome that stains elastic fibers black and mucin blue
Russell’s modification of Movat pentachrome
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What stain is a negative stain outlining bone canaliculi
Schmorl’s picro-thionin stain
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What stain identifies mast cell granules with metachromasia
Toluidine blue (already included but specifying mast cells)
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What stain is used as mordant dye for mucin with aluminum hydroxide
Carmalum (Mayer’s) solution
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What stain is a chromogen-containing dye that forms salts with tissue
Chromophores in aniline dyes
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What stain is a fluorescent nuclear stain alternative for iron hematoxylin
Celestine blue
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What stain is used to stain gangliosides in neurons
Cresyl violet (as metachromatic marker)
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What stain is used for detecting deposits of sulfated mucins purple
Gomori’s aldehyde fuchsin (already included but emphasizing sulfated mucins)
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What stain is used to highlight elastic fibers with blue-black methyl violet
Verhoeff’s elastic stain
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What stain identifies calcium and phosphate deposits by silver reduction
Von Kossa stain
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What stain highlights fibrin and erythrocytes in Lendrum’s MSB stain
Martius Scarlet Blue (MSB) stain
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What stain highlights amyloid by producing purple-red color on green background
Crystal violet (already included but emphasizing amyloid)
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What stain is used for carbohydrate oxidation to aldehydes for silver staining
Jones methenamine silver (already included but emphasizing basement membranes)
