Neural Tissue Staining
It's the main function of microglial cells
What is phagocytosis?
It's a fluorescent stain for mycobacteria. It's more sensitive, but more likely to have false positives.
What is the auramine-rhodamine technique?
You can add DOPA to a slide, perform a Schmorl technique, or do a Fontana-Masson stain.
How would you demonstrate melanocytes?
It's the disorder that would cause increased hemosiderin in tissues due to increased iron absorption.
What is hemochromatosis?
It's the neural component luxol fast blue stains
What is Myelin?
They're the 3 shapes of bacteria
What are cocci (spheres), bacilli (rods), and spirochetes?
It's a component that will bind and reduce silver.
What is an argentaffin?
They can be a mordant, a colorless dye, and a differentiator, all in one.
What are PTA and PMA?
It's the most abundant neuroglia, and the most common cause of gliomas.
What are Astrocytes?
They get potentially infected tissue first.
What is microbiology?
It indirectly stains calcium.
What is the von Kassa technique?
It's what makes acid-fast bacteria stain the way they do.
What is a lipid capsule?
It's what Turnbull blue stains
What is ferrous iron?
It's an acid fast stain, but you use peanut oil and skip the dehydration and clearing steps.
What is the fite stain?
It uses chromic acid and Schiff's reagent.
What is the Gridley stain?
It generates myelin in the peripheral nervous system.
What are Schwann cells?
What are neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques?
It's how you treat a specimen from a Creutzfeld-Jakob patient.
Why would you soak tissue in formic acid for an hour?
They're the steps of synthesis and breakdown of hemoglobin in order.
What are porphyrins, hemoglobin, biliverdin, bilirubin, and urobilinogen?
Powder from surgical gloves looks like this microscopically.
What is PAS-positive, GMS-positive, and refringent with a "maltese cross" formation?