Histological Section

The paraffin technique frozen sections and semithin sections.

Histological section. Making histological sections for the light microscope. Somehow they magically produced beautiful slides for you each containing thin sections of your specimens ready for microscopic evaluation. Histology also known as microscopic anatomy or microanatomy is the branch of biology which studies the microscopic anatomy of biological tissues.

If you re involved in biological research chances are at some stage you ve submitted tissue specimens to a histology lab. Histology is the microscopic counterpart to gross anatomy which looks at larger structures visible without a microscope. The ratio of goblet cells to enterocytes increases from duodenum to ileum.

Giemsa stain of the neutrophil histological slide nuclei are stained purple and cytoplasm is stained blue to pale pink depending on cell type. From cambridge english corpus these examples are from the cambridge english corpus and from sources on the web. The thickness of a histological section generally affects the contrast sharpness and detail recognizability within the microscopic image of the slide.

Read on for the five important stages in histology slide. The stain differentiates the granules of different blood cells by staining them different colours. Have you ever wondered how the histology technician does this.

Techniques for light microscopy three techniques can be used. Histological examination showed a normal atrioventricular node and bundle adjacent to the aneurysm. Although the geometry of the villi is not particularly easy to compare in histological sections the villi progress from being tall foliate and numerous in the duodenum to being less numerous and finger like in form in the ileum.

Basophils show dark blue granules and eosinophils show orange granules.