Chapter 1 Applications of pathology /Fig 1.02.jpg

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A section of renal glomerulus stained by haematoxylin and eosin. The nuclei have affinity for the basic dye haematoxylin and are blue. The cytoplasm has more affinity for the acidic dye eosin and is pink. This technique has not changed significantly in well over a century.