Importance Of Histology

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Histology is the study of the details of the biological cells or tissues in a specimen prepared by histological technique and by using electron or light microscope.
It plays an important role in the fields of verternary,medicine,etc
The word histology is derived from the greek word where histo means tissue and logy means study.therefore histology is the study of the tissues.therefore the person who performs histology by a framed set of procedures is called as a histologist.
Histology is the scientific study of biological tissues.
Histology is done by taking thin sections of the tissue to be examined.to provide assistance and enhance the accuracy of the study various histological stains are used.

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24. Movat's Pentachrome Stain - can be used to study connective tissue.
25. Mucicarmine - a very specific Mucin Stain
- can be used to observe epithelial mucins

26. Mucin Stains - a category of histology stains generally used to indicate one or more types of mucopolysaccharide substances in tissues.
26. Myloperoxidase (MPO) - can help identify cytoplasmic granules characteristic of myeloid cells (i.e.leukocytes that are not lymphocytes).
- can be used to screen peripheral blood samples for indications of myelogenous leukemia, a cancer of the white bllod cells.
27. Nissl Stains - are basic dyes
- can be used to stain RNA and DNA
- can be used to see Nissl bodies (which are also known as "Nissl granules" and as "tigroid bodies") in neurons.

28. Nuclear Fast Red - can be used to stain cell nuclei red (the cytoplasm will be unstained or yellow)
29. Oil Red O - a fat satain
- can identify neutral lipids and fatty acids in smears and tissues
- fresh smears or cryostat sections of tissue are necessary because fixatives containing alcohols, or routine tissue processing with clearing, will remove

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