Minimum number of tests that can be performed 100
Completion time Approximately 3 minutes
Shelf life 2 years
Storage conditions 15-25°C
Additional equipment 100 ml jar for buffer preparation, jar for washing
Application
Rapid method for staining cryostat sections with a thickness of 6 microns.
Result
Cytoplasm, connective tissue pink in various shades and intensities
Nuclei blue
Product for the preparation of cyto-histological samples for optical microscopy.
P.A.S. reaction particularly designed to demonstration of alpha and beta cells on the pituitary gland.
PRINCIPLE
To the P.A.S. reaction that, in pituitary gland, exhibits the granules of basophil cells and some granules of “gamma cells”
(according to Pearse) is added an anionic dye (Orange G) for the demonstration of acidophil cells granules (“alpha cells” according
to Pearse).