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How does H and E stain normal blood cells look like under microscope?
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With an H&E stain, red blood cells look like red doughnuts - round with a depression in the middle like a jelly doughnut with the filling slurped out. The white blood cells are light pink, roughly circular, with a dark purple-blue nucleus. Depending upon the type of white blood cell, there may also be bright red or blue-purple granular structures in the cytoplasm. The platelets are visible as light pink amorphous structures.
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How can you observe a white blood cell in a light microscope?
IF you want to observe WBCs in microscope you will have to stain the blood with either methylene orange or Iodine solution.
Identify a stain that would be appropriate for improving definition of the blood cells?
Leishman's stain
What would the slide look like under the microscope if methylene blue is used instead of nigrosin?
The stain would stain the cells rather than the background
Why are stains such as iodine used to observe cells under the microscope?
Iodine is used to stain the cell. It makes each component of the cell more visible, especially the nucleus.
Are red and white and light purple a blood cell?
Mammals only have red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. Platelets may appear purple under the microscope because of the stains used - but they are not referred to as 'purple blood cells'. Some white blood cells (eg. neutrophils and eosinophils) may also appear pink and/or light purple when stained with conventional stains (eg. H&E stain) - the nucleus is usually the most purple area of these cells. However, they are still white blood cells (despite looking pink/purple).
How can you observe a white blood cell in a light microscope?
IF you want to observe WBCs in microscope you will have to stain the blood with either methylene orange or Iodine solution.
What is the function of a stain in microscope work?
As the cells are transparent, the components cannot be seen clearly through a microscope. We stain the cell so that we can see the components of the cell clearly through a microscope.
Is it useful to stain the Elodea and Anabaena cells with methylene blue stain?
Yes, because the methylene blue stain makes the organelles in eucharyotic cells visible to us in a basic microscope.
What does iodine do to cells?
Maybe kill it, but mostly used to stain the cells to make it more visible under the microscope.
How are tzanck preparations done?
is done by smearing cells taken from a fresh blister or ulcer onto a microscope slide. The cells are stained with a special stain, such as Wright's stain, and then examined under a microscope for characteristic changes caused by a herpes virus
Can you heat fix blood smear before staining for bacterial examination?
You absolutely do not heat fix a blood smear before staining, that is, if you are looking at the blood cells. For bacteria, why wouldn't you culture it first and then heat fix, stain etc. I don't think heat fixing the blood stain would damage the bacterial cells so much as make it hard to differentiate the bacterial cells from the dead, shriveled, ruined blood cells, unless maybe you have like an electron microscope or something.
Identify a stain that would be appropriate for improving definition of the blood cells?
Leishman's stain
What criterion is used to identify reticulocytes?
A blood sample is observed under a microscope using a stain or dye which will cause the RNA of the reticulocyte to be visible. Reticulocytes also look larger than mature red blood cells.
Is maria visible to the naked eye?
No malaria is not visible to the naked eye. Malarial parasites are microscopic and infect red blood cells. We require a blood smear and special stain to see these parasites in the red blood cells of infected patients, under a light microscope. I hope your question was about malaria, and not maria.
What would the slide look like under the microscope if methylene blue is used instead of nigrosin?
The stain would stain the cells rather than the background
Why are stains such as iodine used to observe cells under the microscope?
Iodine is used to stain the cell. It makes each component of the cell more visible, especially the nucleus.
What effect did staining the onion cells have on their appearance under the microscope?
how do cells of the onion specimen appear under the microscope
