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Tri chrome Elastic Reticulin Fat

Gomori's one step Tri chrome stain
CONTROL TISSUE: Muscular artery
TYPE OF STAINING: collagen and nerve stain blue. Muscle, elastic fibers and blood stain red. Cytoplasm of cells stain red. Nuclei stain purple.
APPLICATION: To differentiated fibrous o neural tissue from muscular tissue. Hepatitis
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Verhoeff-van Gieson Stain for elastic fibers

CONTROL TISSUE: Elastic artery
TYPE OF STAINING: Elastic fibers stain black, collagen pink
APPLICATION: Identification of elastic fibers in arteries, skin, etc.
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Wilder method for reticulin
CONTROL TISSUE: liver, tonsil or lymph node.
TYPE OF STAINING: Reticulin black. cells and collagen pink.
APPLICATION: Hepatitis, hematopoietic tissue and some tumors.
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Oil red O stain for fat, frozen section
CONTROL TISSUE: frozen section of skin with sebaceous glands,
MAIN DISTRIBUTION: adipose tissue and sebaceous gland.
TYPE OF STAINING: Cytoplasm
APPLICATION: Sebaceous carcinomas.
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