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The Staining of Mast Cells

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The histochemical techniques for subdividing mast cells stemmed from the observation by Ehrlich’ in 1876 that their lysosomal granules have the capacity to take up and stain metachromatically with basic dyes, such as toluidine blue. Among the histochemical methods to stain mast cells, it is to note to mention Sudan Black B, Luna stain or even Ziehl-Neelsen, which has been assessed historically (Rest and Lee 1979).

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Ribatti, D. (2019). The Staining of Mast Cells. In: The Mast Cell . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24190-2_3

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