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stain

Coloured compound that will bind to other substances. Stains are used extensively in microbiology to colour micro-organisms, in histochemistry to detect the presence and whereabouts in plant and animal tissue of substances such as fats, cellulose, and proteins, and in biochemistry to reveal the location of biomolecules, as in gel electrophoresis.



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Hematoxylin and eosin stain showed numerous megakaryocytes, myeloid and erythroid precursors, and extracellular blood products (hemosiderin).
Sections were cut at 5 [micro]m and stained with routine hematoxylin and eosin stain and by immunohistochemistry.
These antibodies lead to the denaturation of dead or injured cells, forming homogenous oval-shaped bodies that are referred to as "hematoxylin bodies" because they stain blue with common cytologic stains such as Wright-Giemsa, Papanicolaou, and hematoxylin and eosin stains.
 
 
 
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