Description
Stain results:
| Argentaffin Cells: | Black | |
| Coarse connective tissue of the submucosa: | Variable amount of blackening by 3–31 ⁄2 hr. of impregnation | |
| Granules of eosinophil leukocytes, nuclei, smooth muscle & surface epithelium: | show additional blackening after incubation beyond 3–31 ⁄2 hr. | |
| Granules of mast cells: | Remain red after nuclei & reticulum are blackened |
References:
Clark, G.: Staining Procedures, Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 3rd Ed., c. 1973, p. 161.
Gomori, G., Arch. Path., 45:48, 1948.
Burtner, H.J. and Lillie, R.D., Stain Techn., 24:225-7, 1949.
