| Becker's stain | <technique> For spirochetes, a stain applied to thin films fixed in formaldehyde-acetic acid; preparations are treated successively with tannin, carbolic acid, and carbol fuchsin. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Bennhold's Congo red stain | <technique> An amyloid stain useful for amyloid detection in pathologic tissue; gives red staining of amyloid; also induces green birefringence to amyloid under polarised light. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Berg's stain | <technique> A method for staining spermatozoa, utilizing a carbol-fuchsin solution followed by dilute acetic acid and methylene blue; spermatozoa are stained a brilliant red and most other structures appear blue to purple. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Best's carmine stain | <technique> A method for the demonstration of glycogen in tissues. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bielschowsky's stain | <technique> A method of treating tissues with silver nitrate to demonstrate reticular fibres, neurofibrils, axons, and dendrites. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Biondi-Heidenhain stain | <technique> An obsolete stain for spirochetes, using acid fuchsin and orange G. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Birch-Hirschfeld stain | <technique> An obsolete stain for demonstrating amyloid, using Bismarck brown and crystal violet; amyloid is usually stained a bright ruby red, whereas the cytoplasm of cells is not stained and nuclei are brown. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Borrel's blue stain | <technique> A stain for demonstrating spirochetes, treponemes, and Borrelia organisms, using silver oxide (prepared by means of mixing solutions of silver nitrate and sodium bicarbonate) and methylene blue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bowie's stain | <technique> A stain for juxtaglomerular granules in which the kidney sections are stained in a mixture of Biebrich scarlet red and ethyl violet; juxtaglomerular granules and elastic fibres are stained a deep purple, erythrocytes are amber, and background tissue appears in shades of red. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Brown-Brenn stain | <technique> A method for differential staining of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria in tissue sections; it utilises a modified Gram stain of crystal violet, Gram's iodine, and basic fuchsin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Cajal's astrocyte stain | <technique> A method for demonstrating astrocytes by impregnation in a solution containing gold chloride and mercuric chloride. (05 Mar 2000) |
| carbol-thionin stain | <technique> A stain useful for demonstrating typhoid bacilli in films and sections, and for Nissl substance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Macchiavello's stain | <technique> A basic fuchsin-citric acid-methylene blue sequence in smears which produces red staining of rickettsiae and inclusion bodies, with nuclei staining blue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| MacNeal's tetrachrome blood stain | <technique> A stain for blood smears comprised of a mixture of methylene blue, azure A, methylene violet, and eosin Y. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Padykula-Herman stain | <technique> For myosin ATPase, a technique similar to that of Gomori's non-specific alkaline phosphatase stain, except that incubation is carried out with ATP as the substrate at pH 9.4 in the absence of Mg++; enzyme activity is demonstrated as blackened deposits in the A band of striated muscle sarcomeres; control tissue sections lacking substrate and containing sulfhydryl inhibitors are necessary. (05 Mar 2000) |