Date sent:      	Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:24:09 -0800
From:           	Bryan Llewellyn 
Subject:        	Re: Placenta.
To:             	Histonet 

Picro-Mallory differentiated to show muscle rather than fibrin.

Bryan Llewellyn
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ian Montgomery 
  To: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu 
  Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 7:45 AM
  Subject: Placenta.
orbetter still, Lendrum/Slidders' MSB 

 MartiMartius yellow - brilliant  crystal scarlet 6R - soluble blue

The most beautiful of tinctorial stains - and easier for the novice than 
"other" trichromes

Ponceau 6R (Scarlet

          Anyone recommend an aesthetically lovely stain for placenta.
  Ian.

  Dr. Ian Montgomery,
  Histotechnology,
  Graham Kerr Building,
  Institute of Biomedical & Life Sciences,
  University of Glasgow,
  Glasgow,
  G12 8QQ.
  Tel: 0141 339 8855 
  Office: 4652
  Lab: 6644.
  Pager: 07625 702883
  e-mail: ian.montgomery@bio.gla.ac.uk 

Russ Allison, 
Dental School
Cardiff
Wales