Acid Orcein-Iron and Acid Orcein-Copper Stains for Elastin |
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Authors: | R. D. Lillie Anselmo Guti rrez Dolores Madden Raljean Henderson |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Pathology, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, La |
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Abstract: | Paraffin sections of formol-fixed tissues stained 4-18 hr in 70% alcohol containing 1% orcein and 1% of concentrated (12 N) HCl by volume yield the familiar purple brown elastin and red nuclei on a pink background. When sections so stained are transferred directly from the stain to 70% alcohol containing 0.02% ferric chloride (FeCl3·6 H2O) or 0.02% copper sulfate (CuSO4·5 H2O) for a 15 sec to 3 min period, elastin coloration is changed to black or reddish black and chromatin staining to reddish black. The procedure can be counterstained with picro-methyl blue to yield blue collagen and reticulum or with our flavianic acid, ferric chloride, acid fuchsin mixture to give deep yellow background and deep red collagen. |
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