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    Romanowsky staining is a prototypical staining technique that was the forerunner of several distinct but similar stains widely used in hematology (the...
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    long. Leishman stain is named after its inventor, the Scottish pathologist William Boog Leishman. It is a version of the Romanowsky stain, and is thus similar...
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    for James Homer Wright, who devised the stain, a modification of the Romanowsky stain, in 1902. Because it distinguishes easily between blood cells, it became...
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    air dried Romanowsky smears. This led to the creation of a hybrid stain of wet fixed and air dried known as the ultrafast papanicolaou stain. This modification...
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    related to Giemsa stains. Biological stains and staining protocols Histology Leishman stain Microscopy Romanowsky stain Wright's stain Zipfel, E.; Grezes...
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    Diff-Quik (category Romanowsky stains)
    Diff-Quik is a commercial Romanowsky stain variant used to rapidly stain and differentiate a variety of pathology specimens. It is most frequently used...
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    is best known for his invention of an eponymous histological stain called Romanowsky stain. It paved the way for the discovery and diagnosis of microscopic...
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    slightly bluer than other red cells when looked at with the normal Romanowsky stain. Reticulocytes are also relatively large, a characteristic that is...
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  • Jenner's stain (methylene blue eosinate) is used in microscopy for staining blood smears. The stain is dark blue and results in very observable clearly...
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    "Memorandum on staining." Atlas of exfoliative cytology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Supplement II (1960): 12. Diff-Quik— Romanowsky staining method...
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    Field's stain is a version of a Romanowsky stain, used for rapid processing of the specimens. Field's stain consists of two parts - Field's stain A is methylene...
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    stain to produce a wider range of colours, creating the Romanowsky stain, which is still used to stain blood smears for manual differentials. Automation of...
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  • Azurophilic granule (category Staining)
    granule is a cellular object readily stainable with a Romanowsky stain. In white blood cells and hyperchromatin, staining imparts a burgundy or merlot coloration...
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    usually only one or two, located in the cell periphery. They stain on a Romanowsky stain because clumps of ribosomes are co‐precipitated with the iron‐containing...
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    late 19th century, Paul Ehrlich and Dmitri Leonidovich Romanowsky developed techniques for staining white and red blood cells that are still used to examine...
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    performed on blood films stained with Romanowsky stains such as Wright's stain, Giemsa stain, or Diff-Quik. Wright-Giemsa combination stain is also a popular...
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  • widely used metachromatic stains is the family of Romanowsky stains that also contain thiazine dyes: the white cell nucleus stains purple, basophil granules...
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  • cotton-tipped applicators, frosted microscope slides, commercial Romanowsky stain, and light microscope. Basal cells - produce all the different epithelial...
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    May–Grünwald stain is used for the staining of slides obtained by fine-needle aspiration in a histopathology lab for the diagnosis of tumorous cells. Sometimes...
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    difficult to identify. The granules of the mast cell stain blue to dark purple with a Romanowsky stain, and the cells are medium-sized. However, a surgical...
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  • Liu's stain (劉氏染色法) is a staining technique used to stain animal cells. It is an improved staining based on Romanowsky stain, and was introduced by professor...
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  • field. He is the Wright in Wright's stain, and the Homer Wright rosettes associated with neuroblastoma. Romanowsky stain Archives of Pathology - Google Books...
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    infected host erythrocytes that are visible by light microscopy in Romanowsky-stained blood smears as multiple brick-red dots. These morphologic changes...
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    described a method of staining blood for malaria and other parasites—a modification and simplification of the existing Romanowsky method using a compound...
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  • Jaswant Singh–Bhattacharji stain, commonly referred to as JSB stain, is a rapid staining method for detection of malaria. It is useful for the diagnosis...
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    the Papanicolaou stain, or Romanowsky stain derivatives which include Giemsa, Jenner, Wright, Field, May–Grünwald and Leishman stains. The nucleus of the...
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    Eosin (category Staining dyes)
    painter Van Gogh. Romanowsky stain H&E (haematoxylin and eosin) staining Merbromin Lillie, Ralph Dougall (1977). H. J. Conn's Biological stains (9th ed.). Baltimore:...
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    published an essay on the staining procedure for flagellates, blood cells, and bacteria. Giemsa improved the Romanowsky stain (Eosin Y and Methylene Blue)...
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    Methylene blue (category Vital stains)
    by fungal metabolism, as originally noted in the thesis of Dr. D. L. Romanowsky in the 1890s), it gets serially demethylated and forms all the tri-, di-...
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    is implicated in protective immune response against the parasite. Romanowsky stain Ling IT.; Cooksley S.; Bates PA.; Hempelmann E.; Wilson RJM. (1986)...
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