| phloxine | Dichloro-or tetrachlorotetrabromofluorescein;a red acid dye used as a cytoplasmic stain in histology. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Mallory's phloxine stain | <technique> A technique based on retention of phloxine by hyaline after overstaining and then decolorizing with lithium carbonate, used in combination with alum haematoxylin to give nuclear staining; hyaline appears red, older hyaline is pink to colourless, amyloid is pale pink, and nuclei are blue-black. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Gomori's chrome alum haematoxylin-phloxine stain | <technique> A technique used to demonstrate cytoplasmic granules, after Bouin's or formalin-Zenker fixatives, using oxidised haematoxylin plus phloxine; in the pancreas, beta cells are blue, alpha and delta cells are red, and zymogen granules are red to unstained; in the pituitary, alpha cells are pink, beta cells and chromophobes are gray-blue, and nuclei are purple to blue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chrome alum haematoxylin-phloxine stain | <technique> A stain used to demonstrate pancreatic islet cells; alpha cells appear red, beta cells blue or unstained. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haematoxylin-phloxine B stain | <technique> A stain for intact epoxy sections; semi-thick sections of plastic-embedded tissues have the following structures stained blue to black; chromatin, nucleoli, basophilic cytoplasm, mitochondria, plasma and nuclear membranes, anisotropic myofibrils, mast cell granules, and elastic membranes of blood vessels; appearing pink to red are collagen fibrils, reticulum, goblet cell mucins, hyalin cartilage matrix, stereocilia, cytoplasm, and erythrocytes; fat droplets and perichondrocyte matrix are green. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Lendrum's phloxine-tartrazine stain | <technique> A stain for demonstrating acidophilic inclusion bodies, which appear red on a yellow background; nuclei stain blue, but Negri bodies do not stain. (05 Mar 2000) |