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Dye Classes

  · Dye Classes

  · Dye classes - Gurr

  · Dye classes - formulae

  · Acid

  · Amphoteric

  · Basic

  · Direct

  · Mordant

  · Natural

  · Neutral

  · Solvent

  · Acridine

  · Anthraquinone

  · Arylmethane

  · Azos

  · Diazo

  · Nitro

  · Phthalocyanine

  · Quinone-imine

  · Tetrazolium

  · Thiazole

  · Xanthene

 

Dyes

  · Acid fuchsin

  · Acridine orange

  · Acridine red

  · Acriflavine

  · Alcian blue

  · Alcian yellow

  · Alizarin

  · Alizarin blue

  · Alizarin cyanin BBS

  · Alizarin red S

  · Alkali blue 5B

  · Amido black 10B

  · Aniline blue WS

  · Anthracene blue SWR

  · Auramine O

  · Azocarmine

  · Azo-eosin

  · Azophloxine

  · Azure A

  · Azure B

  · Azure C

  · Basic fuchsin

  · Biebrich scarlet

  · Bismarck brown Y

  · Brazilin

  · Carmine

  · Celestin blue B

  · Chrome fast yellow 8GL

  · Chrome violet CG

  · Chromotrope 2R

  · Chromoxane cyanin R

  · Congo corinth G

  · Congo red

  · Coomassie fast yellow G

  · Crystal violet

  · Durazol blue 4R

  · Durazol blue 8G

  · Eosin B

  · Eosinol

  · Eosin Y

  · Erythrosin B

  · Ethyl eosin

  · Ethyl green

  · Ethyl violet

  · Evans blue

  · Fast blue B

  · Fast green FCF

  · Fast red B

  · Fast yellow

  · Fluorescein

  · Gallamin blue

  · Gallein

  · Gallocyanin

  · Hematoxylin

  · Hoffman's violet

  · Iodine green

  · Iodonitrotetrazolium

  · Kermes

  · Lac

  · Light green SF yellowish

  · Lissamine fast yellow

  · Lissamine flavine FF

  · Lissamine rhodamine B

  · Luxol fast blue MBS

  · Magenta II

  · Malachite green

  · Martius yellow

  · Mauveine

  · Metanil yellow

  · Mercurochrome

  · Methyl blue

  · Methylene blue

  · Methylene green

  · Methyl green

  · Methyl violet 2B

  · Milling yellow 3G

  · Naphthalene blue black CS

  · Naphthol green B

  · Naphthol yellow S

  · Neutral red

  · New fuchsin

  · Night blue

  · Nile blue A

  · Nitro blue tetrazolium

  · Nuclear fast red

  · Oil red O

  · Orange G

  · Orcein

  · Pararosanilin

  · Phloxine B

  · Picric acid

  · Ponceau 6R

  · Ponceau S

  · Primuline

  · Purpurin

  · Pyronin B

  · Pyronin Y

  · Rhodamine B

  · Rosanilin

  · Rose bengal

  · Saffron

  · Safranin O

  · Sirius red 4B

  · Sirius red F3B

  · Sudan III

  · Sudan IV

  · Sudan black B

  · Sun yellow

  · Tartrazine

  · Thioflavine T

  · Thioflavine S

  · Thionin

  · Toluidine blue O

  · Trypan blue

  · Victoria blue 4R

  · Victoria blue B

  · Victoria blue R

  · Water blue

  · Woodstain scarlet

  · Xylidine ponceau

 

Comparison

  · Basic fuchsin constituents

  · Eosins

  · Fuchsins & Methyl violets

  · Insect dyes

  · Lysochromes

  · Methyl green

  · Methylene blue

  · Naphthalene blu blk & Amido black

  · Orcein

  · Phthalocyanines

  · Pyronins

  · Victoria blue

 

Fixation

  · Introduction to fixation

  · Alternatives to fixation

  · Fixative Properties

  · Additive & coagulant

  · Formalin terminology

  · Mercury disposal

  · Fixatives comparison

  · Post chromation

  · Post osmication

  · Secondary fixation

 

Fixing agents

  · Acetic acid

  · Acetone

  · Chromic acid

  · Dichromate

  · Ethanol

  · Formaldehyde

  · Glutaraldehyde

  · Methanol

  · Mercuric chloride

  · Osmium tetroxide

  · Picric acid

  · Trichloroacetic acid

  · Zinc chloride

  · Other agents

 

Safe working

  · Acetic acid

  · Acetone

  · Chromium compounds

  · Ethanol

  · Formaldehyde

  · Glutaraldehyde

  · Methanol

  · Mercuric chloride

  · Osmium tetroxide

  · Picric acid

  · Zinc chloride

 

Fixation Artifact

  · Artefact definition

  · Ethanol artifact

  · Formalin pigment

  · Mercury pigment

  · Restoring natural colour

 

Fixatives

  · Aoyama

  · B5

  · Behrens

  · Bouin picro formal acetic

  · Carnoy

  · Chamberlain

  · Champy

  · Clarke

  · Duboscq-Brasil

  · Flemming

  · 10% Formal alcohol

  · Formal ammonium bromide

  · 10% Formal calcium

  · 10% Neutral buffered formalin

  · 10% Formalin and formal saline

  · Formal sublimate

  · 10% Formal sucrose

  · Formalin-Picric-Trichloroacetic

  · Gendre

  · Gilson

  · Glutaraldehyde

  · Gomori 1-2-3

  · Helly

  · Hollande

  · Lebrun

  · Mann

  · Methacarn

  · Müller

  · Navishin

  · Carnoy

  · Ohlmacher

  · Orth

  · 10% Formalin from paraformaldehyde

  · Picro mercuric alcohol

  · Randolph

  · Rossman

  · Ruffini

  · Schaudinn

  · Stieve

  · SuSa

  · Luko, Tellyesniczky

  · Van der Grift

  · Worcester

  · Zenker

  · Zinc formalin

 

Preservatives

  · Cole

 

Dehydration

  · Dehydrants

  · Dehydration

  · Acetone

  · Ethanol

  · Methylated spirits

  · Methanol

  · Propanols

 

Clearing

  · Clearing

  · Alkanes

  · Aromatic hydrocarbons

  · Chloroform and others

  · Terpenes

 

Infiltration

  · Automated paraffin processing

  · Manual paraffin processing

  · Paraffin wax infiltration

 

Processing schedules

  · Manual - thorough

  · Manual - routine

  · Manual - rapid

  · Manual - urgent

 

Amyloid

  · Lendrum et. al. alcian blue

  · Bennhold's congo red

  · Eastwood & Cole's congo red

  · Congo red fluorescence

  · Highman's congo red

  · Puchtler et. al. congo red

  · Stokes' congo red

  · Llewellyn's sirius red

  · Sweat & Puchtler's sirius red

  · Burns et. al. thioflavine T

  · Vassar & Culling's thioflavine T

 

Brazilin

  Bensley’s PTAB

 

Bone

  · Alizarin red S for calcium

  · Von Kossa for calcium

 

Carbohydrate

  · CEC

  · Hale's colloidal iron

  · Mowry's Colloidal iron

  · Mayer's mucicarmine

  · Mayer's mucihematein

  · Ritter & Oleson colloidal iron

  · PAS

  · Bauer CAS

  · PA-ThSCarb-Schmorl

 

Cell inclusions

  · Aldehyde toluidine blue – mast cells

  · Leder – mast cells

  · Carbol chromotrope – eosinophils

  · Hitchcock Ehring – plasma cells

  · Maxwell – pituitary cells

  · Phloxine Tartrazine – VIB

  · Yellowsolve II – cell inclusions

 

Cytological stains

  · Boone & Drijver's alcoholic

  · Papanicolaou

  · Papanicolaou's alcoholic

 

Trichromes

  · Trichrome variants

  · What is a trichrome

  · Masson

  · Original Masson

  · Variants by Masson

  · Yellow Masson

  · Masson variants

  · Shoobridge's polychrome

  · Bensley

  · Brillmeyer

  · Cason

  · Crossman

  · Duprès

  · Engel & Cunningham

  · Goldner

  · Gomori

  · Haythorne

  · Heidenhain

  · Hollande

  · Klatskin

  · Kohashi

  · Koneff

  · Kostowiecki

  · Kricheski

  · Ladewig

  · Laidlaw

  · Lee-Brown

  · Lendrum & McFarlane

  · Lendrum et. al.

  · Lewis & Miller

  · Lillie

  · Mallory

  · McFarlane I

  · McFarlane II

  · McFarlane III

  · Milligan

  · Möllendorf

  · Mollier

  · Paquin & Goddard

  · Pasini

  · Patay

  · Pollak

  · Roque

  · Sweat, Meloan & Puchtler

  · Wallart & Honettte

  · Walter

  · Weiss

 

Picro-fuchsin

  · Herovici

  · van Gieson

  · Picro-fuchsin type

  · Puchtler picro-sirius red

  · Picro-Fuchsin variants

 

Elastic

  · Akita & Kaneko

  · Cook & Lamb

  · Dahlia-iron-resorcin

  · French

  · Gomori

  · Gabe

  · Hart

  · Humberstone

  · Miller

  · Sheridan

  · Taenzer-Unna

  · Unna

  · Verhoeff

  · Weigert

 

Fibrin

  · Fuchsin-Miller

  · Masson 44/41

  · MSB

  · Obadiah

  · Picro-Mallory - long

  · Picro-Mallory - short

  · Yellowsolve I

 

General

  · Iodine-hypo

  · Mallory bleach

  · Meter's Eosin

 

Hematoxylin

  · Hematoxylin

  · Ripening hematoxylin

  · Formulating Hemalum

  · Hematoxylin:aluminum ratios

  · Hematoxylin overview

  · H & E staining

  · H & E – Hemalum

  · H & E – Eosin

 

Aluminum Hematoxylin

  · Anderson

  · Apathy

  · Baker

  · Bennett

  · Bencosme

  · Bohmer

  · Bosma

  · Bullard

  · Carazzi

  · Cole

  · Debiden

  · de Groot

  · Delafield

  · Duval

  · Ehrlich

  · Friedlander

  · Gadsdon

  · Gage

  · Galigher

  · Garvey

  · Gill

  · Graham

  · Hamilton

  · Harris

  · Harris & Power

  · Haug

  · Hine's for blocks

  · Horneyold

  · Kleinenberg

  · Krutsay

  · Langeron

  · Launoy

  · Lee

  · Lillie

  · Lugol

  · Mallory

  · Mallory & Wright

  · Mann

  · Martinotti

  · Masson

  · Mayer

  · McLachlan

  · Mitchell

  · Molnar

  · Papamiltiades

  · Pusey

  · Rawitz

  · Reddy

  · Sass

  · Schmorl

  · Scott

  · Slidders

  · Unna

  · Watson

 

Iron Hematoxylin

  · Anderson

  · Crétin

  · Faure

  · Goldman

  · Hansen

  · Heidenhain

  · Heidenhain type

  · Janssen

  · Kefalas

  · Krajian

  · La Manna

  · Lillie

  · Lillie & Earle

  · Masson

  · Morel & Bassal

  · Murray

  · Paquin & Goddard

  · Régaud

  · Rozas

  · Seidelin

  · Thomas

  · Weigert

  · Yasvoyn

 

Other Hematoxylins

  · Bensley - Copper

  · Cook - Copper

  · Heidenhain - Vanadium

  · Held - Molybdenum

  · Roach & Smith - Bismuth

  · Shum & Hon - PTAH

  · Smith - Vanadium

  · Smith - Zirconium

 

Lipid

  · Chiffelle & Putt

 

Polychrome methods

  · Garvey

  · Garvey-Movat

  · Silverman-Movat

  · Vanderbilt - GI bx

 

Microorganisms

  · AAFB - Kuper May (fluorescent)

  · AAFB - Fite

  · AAFB - Kinyoun

  · AAFB - Verhoeff ZN

  · AAFB - Ziehl Neelsen

  · AFB - Adams

  · AFB - Fite Faraco

  · AFB - Putt

  · AFB - Wade Fite

  · Fungi - CAFS

  · Fungi - Chick

  · Fungi - Gridley

  · Fungi - Ox-Thiosemicarb-Schmorl

  · Gram-Churukian

  · Helicobacter - alcian yellow

  · Helicobacter - Sayeed

  · Helicobacter - Toluidine Blue

  · Helicobacter & malaria - Field

  · Malaria - Jenner-Giemsa

  · Rabies - Alloxan-schiff

 

Neurological methods

  · Kiernan - myelin

  · MacFarland & Davenport - adrenal

  · Palmgren - peripheral nerves

 

Nuclear stains

  · Celestine blue Hemalum

  · Lendrum - celestine blue

  · Proescher & Arkush - celestine blue

  · Duprès magenta

  · Gallocyanin chrome alum

  · Gallego carbol fuchsin

  · Kiernan eriochrome cyanin I

  · Kiernan eriochrome cyanin II

  · Llewellyn mordant blue 3

  · Neutral red

  · Nuclear fast red

 

Oversight

  · AFIP HPS

  · Bencosme's HPS

  · HPS variant

  · Masson's HES

  · McNamara's Giemsa

  · Romanowsky – Giemsa

  · Wolbach's Giemsa

  · Modified yellowsolve

 

Stains for pigment

  · Asbestos

  · Perls Prussian blue - iron

  · Howell rubeanic acid - copper

  · Turnbull blue - iron

 

General solutions

  · Aniline water

  · Carbol fuchsin

  · Colloidal iron

  · Lugol’s iodine

  · Pal bleach

  · Scott's water

  · Weigert bleach

 

Schiff reagents

  · Original

  · Alexander

  · Barger & de Lamater

  · Coleman

  · de Tomasi

  · Feulgen & Rossenbeck

  · Fluorescent

  · Galassi

  · Itikawa & Oguru

  · Kasten & Burtons

  · Lillie's cold

  · Lillie

  · Menzies

 

Schiff

  · Schiff reagent?

  · Alternatives

  · Periodic acid

  · Nucleal reaction

  · PAS reaction

  · Plasmal reaction

  · Protein reaction

  · Blocking aldehydes

  · Standard PAS

  · Bauer CAS

  · Feulgen

  · Lillie's short PAS

  · Lillie's long PAS

  · Lillie acetylation

  · Lillie aldehyde block

  · Lillie amylase digest

  · Lillie benzoylation

  · Lillie celloidin

  · Lillie deacetylation

  · Lillie methylation

  · Lillie protease digest

  · Lillie reducing rinses

  · Lillie lipid extraction

  · Lillie sulphite rinses

  · Lillie Allochrome

  · McManus PAS

  · PAFS

 

Staining theory

  · Accentuators

  · Bond types

  · Degreasing

  · Differentiation

  · Dipoles

  · Fixation

  · Gram stain

  · Lysochromes

  · Mass action

  · How mordants work

  · What a mordant is not

  · Solvents

  · Science of staining

  · Trapping agents

  · Trichromes

  · Trichrome - Dye state

  · Trichrome - Polyacids

  · Trichrome - Tissue state

  · Yellowsolve

 

Basic sciences

  · Amino acids

  · Benzene

  · Periodic table

  · Periodic table - Javacript

  · Protein

 

Elements

· actinium   · aluminum   · americium   · antimony   · argon   · arsenic   · astatine   · barium   · berkelium   · beryllium   · bismuth   · bohrium   · boron   · bromine   · cadmium   · caesium   · calcium   · californium   · carbon   · cerium   · chlorine   · chromium   · cobalt   · copper   · curium   · darmstadtium   · dubnium   · dysprosium   · einsteinium   · erbium   · europium   · fermium   · fluorine   · francium   · gadolinum   · gallium   · germanium   · gold   · hafnium   · hassium   · Helium   · holmium   · hydrogen   · indium   · iodine   · iridium   · iron   · krypton   · lanthanum   · lawrencium   · lead   · lithium   · lutetium   · magnesium   · manganese   · meitnerium   · mendelevium   · mercury   · molybdenum

· neodymium   · neon   · neptunium   · nickel   · niobium   · nitrogen   · nobelium   · osmium   · oxygen   · palladium   · phosphorus   · platinum   · plutonium   · polonium   · potassium   · praeseodymium   · promethium   · protactinium   · radium   · radon   · rhenium   · rhodium   · roentgenium   · rubidium   · ruthenium   · rutherfordium   · samarium   · scandium   · seaborgium   · selenium   · silicon   · silver   · sodium   · strontium   · sulphur   · tantalum   · technetium   · tellurium   · terbium   · thallium   · thorium   · thulium   · tin   · titanium   · tungsten   · ununbium   · ununhexium   · ununoctium   · ununpentium   · ununquadium   · ununseptium   · ununtrium   · uranium   · vanadium   · xenon   · ytterbium   · yttrium   · zinc   · zirconium

Histological elements

· Aluminum   · Calcium   · Carbon   · Chlorine   · Chromium   · Copper   · Gold   · Iodine   · Iron   · Lithium

· Magnesium   · Manganese   · Mercury   · Molybdenum   · Nitrogen   · Osmium   · Silver   · Sulphur   · Tungsten   · Zinc