Hematoxylin
and eosin staining: Soft palate (10x objective lens)
In this section of
soft palate stained with H&E, nuclei are
stained purple (basophilic) with hematoxylin. The cytoplasm
of muscle and connective tissue cells (lower half of image) is acidophilic
(eosinophilic), while the cytoplasm of the glandular
cells (yellow arrow) in the upper half of the image is either basophilic
or unstained.
