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Department : Opath
Histological stains are dyes that bind to various tissues and give meaningful
diagnostic information of the tissues available.
Types of Stain and Salient features:
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Haematoxylin & Eosin stain
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most widely used and principal stain in histology.
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Haematoxylin stains cell nuclei a purplish blue and eosin stains the
extracellular matrix and cytoplasm pink.
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Masson Trichome stain:
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used for staining collagen, fibrin, muscles and erythrocytes
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uses the combination of 3 Stains
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weigert's hematoxylin
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Biebrich scarlet
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Aniline blue
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Van Gieson's stain
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It
is a mixture of picric acid and fuchsin.
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It
is used for differentiate between collagen and smooth muscle in tumours
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The nuclei is stained blue/black. collagen-Red
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cytoplasm, muscle, fibrin, RBC stained yellow
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Perl's prussian blue stain
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It
is used to demonstrate the distribution and amount of iron deposits in liver
tissue, often in the form of biopsy.
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Especially used in bone- marrow and spleen.
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Ib
stairs thon deposits spleen.
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PAS stain (Periodic acid schiff):
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It
is used to detect glycogen - deposit the liver to detect mucopolysaccharides
glycoproteins, glycolipids
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