auramine-rhodamine stain — Truant auramine rhodamine s … Medical dictionary
Truant auramine-rhodamine stain — a method for demonstrating mycobacteria. A smear is heat fixed, stained with auramine rhodamine solution, decolorized, counterstained with potassium permanganate, and examined under ultraviolet light; acid fast organisms glow with a yellow orange … Medical dictionary
Rhodamine — (IPAEng|ˈroʊdəmiːn) is a family of related chemical compounds, fluorone dyes. Examples are Rhodamine 6G and Rhodamine B. They are used as a dye and as a dye laser gain medium. It is often used as a tracer dye within water to determine the rate… … Wikipedia
Auramine O — Canary Yellow redirects here. For the color, see Yellow. Auramine O, also called Basic yellow 2, Pyocatanium aureum, aizen auramine, Pyoktanin Yellow, Canary Yellow, Pyoktanin, or C.I. 41000, is a diarylmethane dye used as a fluorescent stain. In … Wikipedia
rhodamine B — A fluorescent red basic xanthene dye, tetraethylrhodamine chloride, used in histology as a contrasting stain to methylene blue and methyl green, and as a vital fluorochrome. * * * rhodamine B bē … Medical dictionary
auramine O — A yellow fluorescent dye, used as a stain for the tubercle bacillus and as a stain for DNA in Kasten fluorescent Feulgen stain. * * * au·ra·mine O (awґrə mēn) a yellow fluorescent dye used to stain acid fast bacteria and DNA and as … Medical dictionary
Masson's trichrome stain — of rat airway. Connective tissue is stained blue, nuclei are stained dark red/purple, and cytoplasm is stained red/pink. Masson s trichrome is a three colour staining protocol used in histology. The recipes evolved from Claude L. Pierre Masson s… … Wikipedia
Silver stain — A silver stain (GMS) demonstrating the fungus histoplasma (black round balls) in a liver biopsy. Silver staining is the use of silver to selectively alter the appearance of the target. Contents … Wikipedia
Periodic acid-Schiff stain — Periodic acid Periodic acid Schiff (PAS) is a staining method used to detect glycogen and other polysaccharides in tissues. The reaction of periodic acid oxidizes the diol functional groups in glucose and other sugars, creating aldehydes that… … Wikipedia
acid-fast stain — a staining procedure for demonstrating acid fast microorganisms; see auramine rhodamine s., Fite method, Kinyoun staining method and Ziehl Neelsen staining method at Stains and Staining Methods … Medical dictionary
