Difficulties in obtaining reproducible and accurate enumeration of circulating basophils with existing techniques have hampered investigation of this infrequent cell population. A new basophil staining method is described that employs alcian blue dye for staining of heparin within basophils at low pH and in the presence of lanthanum ions. Basophil recognition is facilitated by reducing nonspeci...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of the mixture of carbol fuchsin and alcian blue stain in the diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori (HP) and goblet cell intestinal metaplasia (IM) in comparison to the more commonly used Giemsa and hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stains. Pathological blocks of gastric tissues obtained from January 2006 to December 2007 were recut and processed for Giem...

Since Steedman ( 1950) has introduced it into histochemistry, alcian blue has been advocated to reveal a staining selectivity which depends upon the presence of acidic groups in mucopolysaccharides (Mowry, 1956; Pearse, 1960). As a plausible ground of this concept the fact has been presented that the alcian blue staining of polysaccharides can be increased in intensity, when acidic groups are i...

1. The effect of MgCl(2) concentration on the interaction of Alcian Blue 8GX and glycosaminoglycans in the urine of patients with mucopolysaccharidosis was studied by using a new quantitative micro method for the measurement of Alcian Blue-glycosaminoglycan complexes. This provided a means of measuring the critical electrolyte concentrations of urinary glycosaminoglycans. 2. Theoretical conside...

BACKGROUND Prevalence of short segment Barrett's (SSB) oesophagus, defined as the absence of macroscopic Barrett's but histologically identifiable intestinal metaplasia, has been reported to be 18% based on haematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining. AIMS To define the prevalence of SSB oesophagus using H&E and alcian blue staining and to determine whether SSB oesophagus is associated with inflamm...

In acidic media, cationic phthalocyanine Alcian blue 8GX, has an efficient fluorescence quenching effect on anionic phthalocyanine tetrasulphoaluminium phthalocyanines (AlS₄Pc), forming an almost non-fluorescent associate. Based on this discovery, a red-emitting fluorescent probe consisted of AlS₄PC and Alcian blue 8GX has been developed through molecular assembly. Further studies indicated tha...

The present paper describes a simple, sensitive technique for measurement of respiratory mucous glycoproteins that involves their precipitation with the cationic dye Alcian Blue. The assay was adapted from that described by Whiteman (1973) for measurement of urinary glycosaminoglycans. This method is useful for measurement of mucins secreted in response to stimulating agents in isolated airway ...

One of the simplest procedures to demonstrate mucinous substances (acid mucopolysaccharides) in routine histological preparations involves the use of Alcian dyes. Methods involving these dyes have largely. replaced the older, more empirical mucicarmine technique arid are faster and less complicated than the colloidal iron method of Hale,1 which suffers from the possibility of false-positive sta...

This study was carried out to determine distribution and heterogeneity of mast cells in the digestive tract of the both chicken and quail. Ten Leghorn chickens and ten Japan quails were use during the investigation. Having been sacrified by decapitation, the chickens and quails’ tongue, crop, esophagus, proventriculus, gizzard, duodenum, jejunum, ileum, caecum and colon tissue samples were take...