Exam 5: Staining

What group of dyes is insoluble in water but soluble in alcohol?

This dye is an essential component of the Schiff reagent used in histochemical staining of carbohydrates?

If a Histotechnician received a fresh sample and the pathologist's order is to have a study on the mitochondria. What choice of stain can be best used for staining the mitochondria?

It is an oxazine dye used as an alternative to iron hematoxylin nuclear stain?

What is the possible reason why Orcein is not used as a cytological stain?

After halfway done with staining, the histotechnician accidentally broke the slide. And this slide is needed by the Pathologist as soon as possible for immediate examination. What must a histotechnician do with the broken slide?

Which of the following choices is a metachromatic dye?

Trypan blue vitally stains which specific cell structure?

In Hematoxylin staining solutions, what are the mordants used to demonstrate nuclear and cytoplasmic structures?

This is not essential to the chemical union of the tissue and the dye and it does not participate in the staining reaction. What is this substance?

What dye is used to stain hemoglobin?

The staining done by Janus Green B to demonstrate mitochondria is an example of what type of staining method?

This stain is useful in the detection of myelofibrosis?

In the combined Alcian Blue-PAS Technique for acid and neutral mucins, this alum hematoxylin solution should not be use as a counterstain. What is this alum hematoxylin solution?

This natural dye is an excellent stain for elastic fibers and is especially recommended in dermatological studies?

This is a natural dye derived through the extraction from the heartwood of a Mexican tree.

All of the following are standard MSB techniques for fibrin except for:

This stain is best known as an indicator but can be used to stain axis cylinders in embryos?

What part of a living cell is considered to be resistant to vital stains?

Melanin is best demonstrated by what staining technique?