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It is used to show gliosis in the central nervous system, tumours of skeletal muscles, and fibrin deposits in lesions. Muscle is stained blue-black to dark brown, connective tissue is pale orange-pink to brownish red, fibrin and neuroglia stain deep blue, coarse elastic fibers show as purple, and bone and cartilage obtain yellowish to brownish ...
Hematoxylin and eosin stain (or haematoxylin and eosin stain or hematoxylin-eosin stain; often abbreviated as H&E stain or HE stain) is one of the principal tissue stains used in histology. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is the most widely used stain in medical diagnosis [ 1 ] and is often the gold standard . [ 4 ]
Muscle contraction ends when calcium ions are pumped back into the sarcoplasmic reticulum, allowing the contractile apparatus and, thus, muscle cell to relax. Upon muscle contraction, the A-bands do not change their length (1.85 micrometer in mammalian skeletal muscle), [5] whereas the I-bands and the H-zone shorten. This causes the Z-lines to ...
Another common variant is the Masson trichrome & Verhoeff stain, which combines the Masson trichrome stain and Verhoeff's stain. [2] This combination is useful for the examination of blood vessels ; the Verhoeff stain highlights elastin (black) and allows one to easily differentiate small arteries (which typically have at least two elastic ...
Van Gieson's stain in an angioleiomyoma, making smooth muscle fibers yellow and collagen fibers red. Hematoxylin and Van Gieson's stain gives collagen a pink color, such as in fibrosis (arrows, here in cirrhosis). Van Gieson's stain is a mixture of picric acid and acid fuchsin.
Muscle spindles are composed of 5-14 muscle fibers, of which there are three types: dynamic nuclear bag fibers (bag 1 fibers), static nuclear bag fibers (bag 2 fibers), and nuclear chain fibers. [1] [2] Light microscope photograph of a muscle spindle. HE stain.
H&E stain. Contraction band necrosis is a type of uncontrolled cell death unique to cardiac myocytes and thought to arise in reperfusion from hypercontraction, which results in sarcolemmal rupture. [1] It is a characteristic histologic finding of a recent myocardial infarction (heart attack) that was partially reperfused.
Luxol fast blue stain, abbreviated LFB stain or simply LFB, is a commonly used stain to observe myelin under light microscopy, created by Heinrich Klüver and Elizabeth Barrera in 1953. [1] LFB is commonly used to detect demyelination in the central nervous system (CNS), but cannot discern myelination in the peripheral nervous system .