HT Histotechnician

Category - Staining

Which of the following choices is a metachromatic dye?
  1. Iodine
  2. Malachite green
  3. Methyl green
  4. Methylene violet
Explanation
Answer: D - Methylene violet
Of the following choices the metachromatic dye is methylene violet. It is formed when methylene blue is heated in fixed alkali. It will stain the nuclei of leukocytes reddish-purple. All the other choices are not metachromatic dyes.
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