A stain on iron therapy

A primer on iron therapy.

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Iron as a Stain for Nucleic Acids in Electron Microscopy

An electron stain that would react with nucleic acids would obviously be a valuable addition to the techniques available for the electron microscopic investigation of cell structure. Information available from light microscopy (1-3) indicates that iron has a marked affinity for acidic residues as well as an excellent capacity for the penetration of biological materials. As a heavy metal, it was...

The Role of the Iron Stain in Assessing Intracranial Hemorrhage

The timing of the breakdown of red blood cells and organization of hemorrhage has significance in the catabolism of heme and the processing of iron, but also has a practical application in terms of assigning, or attempting to assign, a time course with respect to traumatic events (e.g. contusions and hemorrhages). Attempts to date contusions, however, have generally been unsuccessful by macrosc...

A Note on the Lepehne—Pickworth Stain

A Rapid Method of Iron Hæmatoxylin Stain for Protozoa in Tissue Sections and Smears

There arc several well-known methods of iron hematoxylin staining of protozoa in smears and tissue sections, viz, Heidenhain's, Mallory's, and Weigert's. In the first two of these methods, the mordant, an iron salt, and the stain hematoxylin, are applied separately; and in Weigert's method, the mordant and the stain are mixed up immediately before staining. Though excellent results can be obtai...