Aplicación de la Hematoxilina férrica de M. Heidenhain para el estudio de cortes semifinos (adenohipófisis humana)

Abstract

Heidenhain´s iron hematoxylin has been one of the most useful methods of classical cytology. Its ability to stain simultaneously many cell and extracellular structures makes it a general purpose histological technique. This current work describes its application to semithin sections, using human adenohypophysis, discussing the staining mechanism and showing his usefulness to evidence cytological variability and to perform image analysis.