Maricopa Community Colleges  HCE175   20066-99999 

Official Course Description: MCCCD Approval: 4-25-2006

HCE175  2006 Fall – 2011 Summer II

LEC  3.0 Credit(s)  3.0 Period(s)  3.0 Load  Occ

Cellular Biological Staining

Recognition of basic cellular structure. Identification of carbohydrates classification, pigments, minerals, and lipids in tissues and connective tissue structures. Explanation of chemical staining theory. Stain principles and procedures for nuclear and cytoplasmic structures, carbohydrates and lipids, connective tissue, and tissue pigments and minerals stains.

Prerequisites: HCE173 and HCE174. Corequisites: HCE176.

 

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HCE175  2006 Fall – 2011 Summer II

Cellular Biological Staining

 

1.

Review basic cellular structure.(I)

2.

Describe theory of chemical staining. (II)

3.

Identify nuclear and cytoplasmic stains.(III)

4.

Describe the classification of carbohydrates in tissue structures.(IV)

5.

Identify carbohydrate stains.(IV)

6.

Describe connective tissue structures.(V)

7.

Identify connective tissue stains. (V)

8.

Describe lipid structures in tissue. (VI)

9.

Identify lipid stains. (VI)

10.

Describe pigments found in tissue. (VII)

11.

Identify pigment stains. (VII)

12.

Describe minerals found in tissue (VIII)

13.

Identify mineral stains. (VIII)

14.

Describe cytoplasmic granules found in tissue. (IX)

15.

Identify cytoplasmic granules found in stains. (IX)

 

 

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HCE175  2006 Fall – 2011 Summer II

Cellular Biological Staining

 

I. Cellular Structure

A. Nucleus

B. Cytoplasm

II. Theory of Chemical Staining

A. Nuclear

B. Cytoplasmic

C. Natural dyes

1. Indigo

2. Cochineal

3. Orcein

4. Hematoxylin

D. Artificial/synthetic dyes

E. Chemical mechanisms

1. Differentiation

2. Acid and basic dye classification

3. Oxidation and reduction

4. Auxochromes and chromatophores

5. Absorption/solution theory

6. Metachromatic staining

7. Mordants

8. Electrostatic bonds

III. Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Stains

A. Nuclear

1. Hematoxylin

a. Alum

b. Iron

c. Other

2. Methylene blue

3. Celestine blue

4. Carmine

B. Cytoplasmic

1. Eosin

2. Phloxine

C. Combination

1. Hematoxylin and eosin

2. Giemsa

3. Methyl green-pyronin

IV. Carbohydrates

A. Carbohydrates classifications in tissue structures

1. Polysaccharides

2. Neutral mucins

3. Acid mucins

4. Sulfated and non-sulfated mucins

5. Mucoproteins

6. Glycoproteins

B. Carbohydrate stains

1. Periodic acid Schiff (PAS)

2. Mucicarmine

3. Alcian blue stains

4. Colloidal iron stains

5. Congo red

6. Thioflavin T

7. Crystal violet/methyl violet

V. Connective Tissue

A. Collagen

1. Trichrome staining

2. Other

B. Reticulum

1. Wilder

2. Gridley

3. Snook

4. Laidlaw

C. Elastic

1. Verhoeff van Gieson

2. Aldehyde fuchsin

3. Orcein

4. Resorcin fuchsin

D. Basement membranes

1. Jones

2. Gomori's PAS – Methenamine silver

E. Muscle

1. Phosphotungstic Acid Hematoxylin (PTAH)

2. Trichromes

3. Lendrum

VI. Lipids

A. Tissue structures

1. Storage cells

2. Trauma displacement

3. Cellular degeneration

B. Stains

1. Sudan black

2. Oil red O

3. Osmium tetroxide

VII. Pigments

A. Artifact

1. Formalin

2. Mercury

3. Chrome

B. Exogenous

1. Carbon

2. Asbestos

3. Tattoo

C. Endogenous hematogenous

1. Hemosiderin

a. Prussian blue stain

b. Turnbull's stain

2. Bile

a. Hall's

b. Other

D. Endogenous nonhematogenous

1. Melanin

a. Fontana-Masson

b. Schmorl

2. Argyrophil granules

a. Grimelius argyrophil stain

b. Sevier-Munger

c. Churukian-Schenk

3. Lipidic pigments

a. Lipofucscin

b. Ceroid

VIII. Minerals

A. Endogenous deposits

1. UratesGomori's methenamine silver

2. Other

B. Calcium

1. Von Kossa

2. Alizarin red S

C. Copper

1. Rhodanine

2. Rubeanic acid

IX. Cytoplasmic Granules

A. Chromaffin granules

1. Schmorl

2. Other

B. Argentaffin granules

1. Fontana Masson

2. Other

 

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