(n.) An orange-red dyestuff extracted from the saffron.
(n.) A red dyestuff extracted from the safflower, and formerly used in dyeing wool, silk, and cotton pink and scarlet; -- called also Spanish red, China lake, and carthamin.
(n.) An orange-red dyestuff prepared from certain nitro compounds of creosol, and used as a substitute for the safflower dye.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stage IV cells contain only safranin-positive granules.
(2) In 13- and 15-day embryos, mast cells showed a pale metachromasia with toluidine blue, and stained blue with Alcian Blue-Safranin O (AB-S).
(3) At 30 and 60 days, an S-100 positive band of cells separated a deep safranin-O positive hypertrophic layer from a fibrocellular surface layer.
(4) The increase of cAMP level also affected the maturation of mast cells, as the ratio of cells of mixed granulation increased, compared to the alcian blue- and safranin-present model inhibited degranulation.
(5) Astra blue (AB) safranine stained highly significantly more mast cells than did toluidine blue.
(6) There was a profound loss of safranin-O stainability in the nucleus pulposus, annulus fibrosus and cartilagenous endplate.
(7) Other staining techniques assessed were the modified Ziehl-Neelsen, safranin-methylene blue and auramine-phenol fluorescence.
(8) A zone of safranin O depletion was present in the ventral anulus fibrosus adjacent to the nucleus pulposus in all treated discs, indicating proteoglycan loss.
(9) The distribution and localization of S-100 protein was compared with safranin-O staining and H and E morphology in relatively unaffected, degenerative, and osteophytic regions of human articular cartilage from 26 joints obtained at the time of total joint replacement for osteoarthritis.
(10) Both safranin O and Giemsa were suitable nonfluorescent staining techniques; lomofungin was not.
(11) After 8-12 weeks, however, many subserosal mast cells became positive for berberine sulfate and safranin.
(12) Defects in treated joints contained Safranin O staining material that was histologically similar to a disorganized hyaline cartilage.
(13) Intestinal MC stained with the same dyes as oral MC except for 0.005% toluidine blue, berberine sulfate, and safranin.
(14) A new microspectrophotometric method was developed for quantitation of glycosaminoglycans with Safranin O dye in articular cartilage matrix.
(15) It is concluded that the use of safranine to monitor the changes in membrane potential during Ca2+ transport by mitochondria should be avoided or special care be taken.
(16) The selectivity of myoepithelial cell staining is enhanced by oxidation of sections, nuclear staining by Safranin-O, and differentiation with Tartrazine.
(17) Ferric ion-ferrocyanide staining and safranin-0-counterstaining of neocortical tissue from cats with GM1 gangliosidosis have established that pyramidal neuron meganeurites occur proximal to axonal initial segments and that they are distinct from axonal spheroids.
(18) Cytochrome oxidase reconstituted vesicles, supplemented with ascorbate and cytochrome c. induce large spectral changes of the positive dye safranine, reversed by uncouplers and inhibitors of respiration.
(19) Histologic specimens of the articular cartilage were stained with Safranin-O to assess proteoglycans-enhanced chrondrocyte function, and the synovium was stained with pentachrome.
(20) Synaptosomes were severely energy-deprived, because anaerobic glycolysis was inhibited by 90% from the aerobic level and mitochondrial membrane potential dropped below the limit that could be detected by the safranine method.
Stain
Definition:
(v. t.) To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.
(v. t.) To color, as wood, glass, paper, cloth, or the like, by processess affecting, chemically or otherwise, the material itself; to tinge with a color or colors combining with, or penetrating, the substance; to dye; as, to stain wood with acids, colored washes, paint rubbed in, etc.; to stain glass.
(v. t.) To spot with guilt or infamy; to bring reproach on; to blot; to soil; to tarnish.
(v. t.) To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
(v. i.) To give or receive a stain; to grow dim.
(n.) A discoloration by foreign matter; a spot; as, a stain on a garment or cloth.
(n.) A natural spot of a color different from the gound.
(n.) Taint of guilt; tarnish; disgrace; reproach.
(n.) Cause of reproach; shame.
(n.) A tincture; a tinge.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
(2) Within the outflow tract wall, the labelled cells were enmeshed by strands of alcian blue-stained extracellular matrix.
(3) The nuclear origin of the Ha antigen was confirmed by the speckled nuclear immunofluorescence staining pattern given by purified antibody to Ha obtained from a specific immune precipitate.
(4) The content of the cavities was not stained by any of the immunocytochemical reactions applied.
(5) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
(6) Moreover, in DCVC-treated cells the mitochondria could not be stained with rhodamine-123, indicating severe mitochondrial damage and loss of membrane potential.
(7) Immunofluorescent staining for HLA-DR showed dermal positivity in 12 of 13 involved- and 9 of 13 uninvolved-skin biopsy specimens from scleroderma patients, compared with only 1 of 10 controls.
(8) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
(9) Further purification of ZAB by filtration through Sephadex G-100 gave a preparation (ZAB2) which contained the common antigen as shown by the cross-reactivity of anti-ZAB2 rat serum with seven stains of N. gonorrhoeae.
(10) It has been found that the epidermal staining pattern for ICAM-1 in each of these diseases in distinctive and different in each disease.
(11) After either 5 or 10 days of culture with both cytokines, intense immunofluorescent staining for Ia could be identified on the surface of greater than 80-90% of the viable islet cells.
(12) In the second comparison, HSV was isolated from 225 of 1,026 (21.9%) specimens and duplicate human foreskin fibroblast cell wells stained at 24 and 72 h were PAP positive in 241 of 1,026 (23.5%).
(13) The epithelium of Brunner's gland stained intensely with Ricinus communis agglutinin-I (RCA-I), succinylated-WGA (S-WGA) and wheat-germ agglutinin (WGA), moderately with Bandeirea simplicifolia agglutinin-I (BS-I), Concanavalia ensiformis agglutinin (Con A) peanut agglutinin (PNA) and Ulex europaeus agglutinin-I (UEA-I) and occasionally with Dolichos biflorus agglutinin (DBA), Lens culinaris agglutinin (LCA) and soybean agglutinin (SBA).
(14) Using serial section electron microscopic reconstructions as a reference, we have chosen as our standard procedure a method that maximizes both the preservation of the cytoskeleton and the proportion of cells staining, while minimizing the degree of nonspecific staining.
(15) One major band with a molecular weight of 12,000 was detected by autofluorography and coincided with the Coomassie staining band of apocytochrome c from S. cerevisiae.
(16) Pitlike surface structures seen in negatively stained whole cells and thin sections were correlated with periodically spaced perforations of the rigid sacculus.
(17) In the present study, 125 oesophageal biopsies obtained under direct vision at endoscopy from 22 patients with Barrett's oesophagus were systematically studied using fluorescence and peroxidase antiperoxidase single and double-staining immunocytochemical methods employing highly specific antibodies to localize the following peptide-containing cell types in Barrett's mucosa: gastrin, somatostatin, gastric inhibitory polypeptide, motilin, neurotensin and pancreatic glucagon.
(18) The rate of nuclei stained by Pr-122 is different from that of Pr-192 in both growing and quiescent cultures.
(19) This light microscopic comparison of viable FDA- and nonviable PI-stained cysts of G. muris demonstrates that 2 types of cysts can be distinguished and implies that structural differences can be used to identify these subpopulations of cysts.
(20) Benign and malignant epithelial and soft tissue tumors of the skin were usually negatively stained with MoAb HMSA-2.