An Automatic Staining Machine Designed for Staining Blood Films Made on Coverslips

An automatic staining machine for blood and marrow films on slides.

Automated slide staining machine.

A machine is described which can perform the Gram stain. Comparison of slides stained by machine versus hand revealed no difference in reproducibility or accuracy. In addition to providing clean, dry, uniformly stained slides, the machine saves 24 sec per slide when compared with a hand staining technique.

Corneal blood staining after hyphaema.

Corneal blood staining has been described as a rare complication of contusion injury in which a hyphaema of relatively long duration and a raised intraocular pressure coexist. It is infrequent after penetrating injuries, in which the tension is usually low, and is occasionally found in association with haemorrhagic glaucoma, occlusion of the central retinal vein, and intraocular tumours (Berlin...

Introducing a combined Leishman-Giemsa stain as a new staining technique for avian blood smears

Background: The use of conventional stains including Giemsa, Wright and Leishman have become an essential tool for differential diagnosis of cells in peripheral blood. Aims: The aim of the study was to develop a new combination of Leishman-Giemsa (L&G;) stain for avian blood smears and to compare its efficacy with conventional staining methods. Methods:<...

Studies on Vital Staining

When large amounts of brilliant vital red are injected into the blood stream of dogs, the dye is gradually removed from circulation, and most of it is deposited in numerous phagocytic cells which are scattered throughout various organs and tissues. The dye occurs largely in the form of tiny red granules crowded together in the cytoplasm of these cells. If Niagara sky blue, a closely related dye...