Which of the following fixative components can also be used in staining techniques as a dye component?

Which of the following will bind to acid mucosubstances, which can then be demonstrated by the Prussian blue reaction?

In order to suppress background and nonspecific staining, a congo red solution frequently contains:

What is the micrometer thickness preferred for the technique shown:

Muscle that histologically contains cytoplasmic cross-striations and has multiple nuclei located at the edge of the fibers is classified as:

Collagen in the Gomori One Step trichome typically is stained:

A patient has pyelonephritis (kidney). Which trichrome stain would most likely be ordered?

In the wilder's reticulin stain, uranyl nitrate is used as a(n):

You have performed a masson's trichrome stain. Upon review for quality control, you notice that the tissue has a black precipitate and the nuclei are dark black. What probably happened is:

The phosphotungstic acid hematoxylin (PTAH) stain is useful for demonstrating:

A possible source of error in the bodian procedure is:

The type of silver used in the bodian technique is:

Bielschowsky's method involves double impregnation of brain sections with silver solution. The reducing agent used in this method is:

Which of the following will not demonstrate myelin?

A giemsa stained microscopic section shows marked lysis of RBC's, amorphous brown pigment lying on top of the section, and very pale nuclear staining. These results are most likely due to improper treatment of tissue after fixation in:

To fix reactions and prevent further reduction of unused silver in the presence of light during silver procedures, sections should be treated with:

A cell type that will stain with metachromatic dyes is most likely:

A special staining technique that stains ____ purple is most likely ____.

The crystal violet technique for amyloid is a/an:

Which of the following fungi are well demonstrated with the colloidal iron stain?

A tissue control section of small intestine were stained for the recommended time with a trichrome procedure using aniline blue. A quality control check reveals pale pink muscle staining. The most likely cause of this staining could be:

Schiff reagent is a/an:

Which of the following pigments can be stained with sudan black B?

The density of collagen fibers in any given organ varies from loose to dense according to the:

Which of the following is not a good control for collagen stains?

Verhoeff Van Gieson technique, iodine is added to alcoholic hematoxylin and what other chemical?

The function of bouins fluid in the trichrome stains is that of a(n):

When performing a reticulin stain, what is the name of the combination of silver nitrate and ammonia hydroxide solution?

Which of the following stains are used to demonstrate nissl substance?

A silver method that uses pyridine silver nitrate for impregnating neurofibrils is:

How should tissue slides that have been zenker's fixed be treated when performing the verhoeff van gieson?

Which of the following special stain techniques may be used to demonstrate glial fibers?

The type of gold used in the Cajal gold sublimate technique is:

A special stain technique that stains glial fibers blue is:

A good control for stains to demonstrate collagen is:

Diastase digestion increases specificity for:

Hyaluronidase used to digest connective tissue mucins in which of the following stains?

The schiff reaction may show a false positivity after which of the following fixatives?

The color results for the colloidal stain are ____ for iron and the background is ___.

The elastic stain that is primarily used to stain beta cells of the pancreas is:

Trichrome stains are useful to:

The fixative of choice that gives optimum results with the PTAH stain is:

Verhoeff solution contains ferric chloride which acts as a/an:

What special precautions should be followed when performing the reticulin stain:

Myelin, the white fatty material for insulation and protection around nerve fibers, contain protein, cholesterol, cerebrosides, and:

Which of the following provide a support network for the central nervous system?

Nissl substance is composed of:

The cells that produce myelin in the PNS are called ___ and in the CNS the cells are called ___.

A staining method that is used to diagnose alzheimer's disease is:

Marked non-specific background staining is noted on a section stained with the PAS technique. This could be the result of:

Sections of small intestine stained with a mucicarmine show orange goblet cells that are primarily obscured by the yellow background. This is most likely the result of:

The best control for any of the reticular stains is:

The van gieson counterstain consists of:

In the gordon and sweets reticulin stain, which of the following is used as an oxidizing reagents may be used to bleach melanin:

The alcian blue 1.0 has been ordered on a colon biopsy. When making this you take 1 gm of alcian blue and use a solvent of ____.

The reticulin stain uses ___ to tone sections.

The reagent used to stain the fibers black in the reticulin is most likely:

Techniques used to stain the fibers black when using a reticulin stain includes all of the following except:

The oxidizer used in the PTAH stain is most likely:

The reagent used as a bleaching agent for the PTAH stain is:

The sequence of reactions in the wilder and snook silver methods for reticulum fibers is:

If zenker's (or it's substitute) fixed tissue is used to perform connective tissue stain for collagen, tissue must be treated with:

Stains to differentiate collagen from muscle are useful to the pathologists because:

A natural dye that has an affinity for elastic is:

A section of uterus was fixed in 10% NBF and stained with the masson trichrome stain. How should tissue be treated prior to staining?

What is a good control for nissl stains?

what are the differentiating solution used in the LFB technique?

Chromotrope 2R is most likely used in the:

A combination method for demonstrating fat and myelin in frozen sections of brain is:

A combination method for demonstrating myelin and nerve fibers is:

The differentiating solution in holzer's method is:

Which of the following substances will NOT produce an irreversible reaction?

The PAS reaction depends upon the presence of:

What is the recommended control(s) for the VVG technique?

What is the preferred fixative to be used for the aldehyde fuchsin stain?

In a section of umbilical cord stained with alcian blue, the blue staining is due to:

What is the principle of staining neurofibrils in nerve tissue?

An argyrophil stain that can also be used to demonstrate granules of some carcinoid tumors is the method of:

An acetic acid rinse is used in trichrome technique to make colors more transparent. The acetic acid acts as a/an:

The basic component of the central nervous system is the:

The nerve process carrying nerve impulses toward the cell body is called:

A component of nerve tissue that can be demonstrated by gold and silver impregnation technique is:

Which of the following do not stain dendrites or axons?

This stain will show wallerian degeneration within a tract of axons such as in syphilis or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis:

For the churukian schenk method for ____ you have to pretreat the slides with ____ before placing the slides in the silver nitrate.

The color result for the congo red method is ___ for amyloid and the background is ___.

The addition of acid to the crystal violet staining solution can:

The term "squamous", "cuboidal", and "columnar" describe cells that have their origin in which tissue?

Hemoglobin is best demonstrated by ____ dyes.

A 4 micron section of cerebral cortex was stained with bodian technique. Microscopic examination of the sections show light staining of the fibers as well as light staining of NFR, with very little morphology. The most likely cause of this staining is:

The sevier munger special stain is most likely staining for:

Chromatolysis during injury to a neuron refers to loss of:

A connective tissue stain that is useful in the diagnosis of Rhabomyosarcoma is:

When cresyl echt violet at pH 2.5 is used to stain tigroid bodies, the staining is:

What is used in the bodian technique to increase the differentiation between neural and connective tissue?

A good control for the mayer mucicarmine is:

The reliability of schiff reagent may be checked by adding which of the following to a small aliquot of the schiff solution?

What is the largest part of the brain?

The type of differentiation used in the verhoeff van gieson is: