Hi,
Bismark Brown under the right conditions will stain mast cells.  Does it do
this is the PAP stain?
Lauren

----- Original Message -----
From: RUSS ALLISON <Allison@Cardiff.ac.uk>
To: <histonet@pathology.swmed.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 8:25 AM
Subject: Bismark Brown


>
> I have been known to make the remark that Bismark Brown makes
> no contribution to Papanicolaou  staining and ascribe it to Paul
> Marshall.
> Tony Henwood has stimulated me to find the reference.
> Here it is:
>
> Studies on Papanicolaou Staining I. Anal Quant Cytol J 1979;1:160-
> and the same journal; 169-
>
> The remarks are made in the second of these, and to quote:
>
> "Bismark Brown Y was not bound to cervical cells, which confirms
> the subjective findings of previous suthors, and so it should be
> omitted"
>
> Russ,
>
>
>
> Russ Allison,
> Dental School
> Cardiff
> Wales
>
>