Research Article
Histochemical Study of the Progenetic Trematode Alloglossidium renale
Table 3
Palaemonetes kadiakensis tissue staining table.
| | Stain | Tubule cell apical microvilli | Tubule cell basal border | Tubule cell nuclei | Tubule cell cytoplasm | Lumen of tubule | Interstitial Space | Damaged tubule cells |
| | Alcian blue pH 1.0 | − | − | − | − | − | − | − |
| | Alcian blue pH 2.5 | ++ | + | − | − | − | − | + |
| | Ferro-ferricyanide | − | − | − | − | − | − | − |
| | Feulgen stain | − | − | +++ | − | − | − | +++ |
| | Harris hematoxylin | + | ++ | +++ | + | + | − | +++ nuclei
++ cytoplasm |
| | Ninhydrin-Schiff | + | + | ++ | + | − | − | ++ |
| | Osmium tetroxide | − | − | − | − | − | − | − |
| | Periodic acid-Schiff | ++ | ++ | − | +/− | + | − | + |
| | Toluidine blue | − | + light blue | ++ dark blue | + light blue | + | − | +++ dark blue
nuclei
+ light blue
acidic structures |
| | Ward’s protein stain | + | + | − | + | + | − | + |
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