supravital stain

  • 1stain — 1. To discolor. 2. To color; to dye. 3. A discoloration. 4. A dye used in histologic and bacteriologic technique. 5. A procedure in which a dye or combination of dyes and reagents is used to color the constituents of cells and tissues. For… …

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  • 2supravital staining — the application of a stain to living tissue, particularly blood cells, removed from the body. * * * staining of living tissue removed from the body, but before cessation of the chemical life of the cells …

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  • 3supravital staining — the application of a stain to living tissue, particularly blood cells, removed from the body …

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  • 4Leonor Michaelis — (January 16, 1875 ndash; October 8, 1949) was a German biochemist and physician famous for his work with Maud Menten in enzyme kinetics and Michaelis Menten kinetics.Born in Berlin (Germany), he studied medicine in Freiburg, where he graduated in …

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  • 5Neutral red — IUPAC name toluylene red …

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  • 6body — 1. The head, neck, trunk, and extremities. The human b., consisting of head (caput), neck (collum), trunk (truncus), and limbs (membra). 2. The material part of a human, as distinguished from the …

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  • 7Inclusion bodies — are nuclear or cytoplasmic aggregates of stainable substances, usually proteins. They typically represent sites of viral multiplication in a bacterium or a eukaryotic cell and usually consist of viral capsid proteins.CompositionProtein inclusion… …

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  • 8methylene blue — A basic dye easily oxidized to azure, with dye mixtures; used in histology and microbiology, to stain intestinal protozoa in wet mount preparations, to track RNA and RNase in electrophoresis, and as an antidote for methemoglobinemia; its …

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  • 9Inclusion body — Inclusion bodies are nuclear or cytoplasmic aggregates of stainable substances, usually proteins. They typically represent sites of viral multiplication in a bacterium or a eukaryotic cell and usually consist of viral capsid proteins. Inclusion… …

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  • 10neutral red — Used as an indicator (red at pH 6.8, yellow at 8.0), as a vital dye to stain granules and vacuoles in living cells, in testing the secretion of acid by the stomach (given with a test meal), and in general histologic staining. SYN …

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