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Acetylcholinesterase |
Cerebellum |
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Acid phosphatase |
Prostate, liver or kidney |
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Adenosine triphosphatase |
Muscle or liver |
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Adrenaline |
Adrenal medulla |
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Alkaline phosphatase |
Kidney or small intestine |
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Alphafoetoprotein |
Primary carcinoma of liver |
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Aluminium |
Lung or skin in diseased patient |
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Amyloid AA |
Widespread but kidney, liver, spleen, lymph nodes, adrenal and thyroid are classically involved. |
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Amyloid AL |
Widespread but heart, gastro-intestinal tract, peripheral nerves, skin and tongue are classically involved. |
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Argentaffin cells |
Appendix or ileum |
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Arginine |
Paneth cells and lymphoid tissue |
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Argyrophil cells |
Stomach, small intestine |
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Arsenic |
Hair, nails and bone |
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Ascorbic acid |
Liver or adrenal cortex |
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Aspergillus |
Lung in diseased patient |
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Astrocytes, fibrous |
Brain white matter |
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Astrocytes, protoplasmic |
Brain grey matter |
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Axons |
Cerebrum, cerebellum, spinal cord |
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Basement membranes |
Kidney |
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Beryllium |
Lung in diseased patient |
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Bilirubin |
Biliary cirrhosis, cholelithiasis |
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Biliverdin |
Biliary cirrhosis, cholelithiasis |
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Calcitonin |
Dog thyroid |
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Calcium carbonate |
Bone, necrosis, atheroma |
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Calcium oxalate |
Kidney or thyroid in oxalosis, bone |
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Calcium phosphate |
Bone, necrosis, atheroma |
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Candida albicans |
Skin of diseased patient |
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Carcino-embryonic antigen |
Colon |
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Carcinoid |
Appendix, small intestine, rectum and sigmoid colon. |
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Cartilage, fibrous |
Invertebral discs |
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Cartilage, hyaline |
Joints |
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Charcot-leyden crystals |
Lung of asthmatics, eosinophil granulomas |
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Chitin |
Hydatid cysts of liver and lung |
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Cholesterol |
Adrenal cortex and atheroma |
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Chromaffin |
Adrenal medulla |
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Collagen |
skin, lung or liver |
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Copper |
Liver in diseased patient - Wilson's disease, primary biliary cirrhosis |
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Cryptococcus |
Lung of diseased patient |
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Cysteine |
Hair follicles |
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Cystine |
Stratum corneum and hair shafts |
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Cytochrome oxidase |
Liver, muscle and kidney |
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Degenerate myelin |
Brain of patients with multiple schlerosis |
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Dehydrogenase |
Liver, kidney and heart |
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Dendrites |
Cerebrum, cerebellum, spinal cord |
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DNA |
Lymph node |
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Dopamine |
Mast cells of mice and rats |
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Elastic fibres |
Aorta, dermis of skin, lung or intestine |
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Epidermis, intercellular bridges |
Squamous cell papilloma, palmar and plantar skin |
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Esterase (non specific) |
Liver, kidney or small intestine |
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Fatty acids |
Fat necrosis |
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Fibrin |
Foetal lung in hyaline membrane disease |
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Ganglion cells |
Walls of the gastro-intestinal tract |
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Glucose-6-phosphatase |
Colon |
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Glycogen |
Liver |
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Golgi apparatus |
Neurones |
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Gram negative organisms |
Controls can be manufactured using a culture from a known organism and lung from autopsy. Culture together for 24 hours then fix and process. |
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Gram positive organisms |
As for gram negative organisms |
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Haematoidin |
Infarcts and abscesses |
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Haemazoin |
Liver of malaria patients |
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Haemosiderin |
Haemorrhage and haemochromotosis |
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Hepatitis B surface antigen |
Liver in viral hepatitis |
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Human chorionic |
Placenta gonadotrophin |
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Hyaluronic acid |
Umbilical cord |
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Iron |
Liver in hemochromatosis |
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Keratin |
Palmar and plantar skin |
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Legionella pneumophilia |
Lung of diseased patient |
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Leprosy bacilli (myco leprae) |
Skin of diseased patient |
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Lipid |
Corpus luteum of ovary |
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Lipofuschin |
Heart, ganglion cells |
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Mallory bodies |
Liver from alcoholic cirrhosis |
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Mast cells |
Gastro-intestinal tract, intermuscular tissue or skin |
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Melanin |
Negroid skin, naevus tumours |
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Microglia |
Brain |
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Mitochondria |
Renal tubules, liver and heart |
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Mucin |
small intestine, submaxillary gland |
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Mucopolysaccharides |
skin, umbilical cord |
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Muscle, striations |
Skeletal muscle |
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Myelin |
Cerebrum, cerebellum or spinal cord |
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Neurosecretory substance |
Hypothalmus |
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Neutral fat |
Subcutaneous tissue |
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Neutral mucin |
Stomach |
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Nissl |
Brain or spinal cord |
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Noradrenaline |
Adrenal medulla |
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6-nucleotidase |
Thyroid or liver |
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Osteoid |
Bone in osteomalacia |
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Oxytalan fibres |
Periodontal ligaments |
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Paneth cells |
Small intestine |
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Peroxidase |
Granulocytes, erythrocytes |
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Phospholipid |
Brain or spinal cord |
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Plasma cells |
Rheumatoid synovitis, lymph nodes in plasmacytosis |
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Pneumocystis carinii |
Lung in diseased patient |
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Purkinje cells |
Cerebellum |
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Purkinje fibres |
Heart (subendocardium) |
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Reticulin fibres |
Liver, spleen, lymphoid tissue |
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Ribonucleic acid |
Plasma cell, neurones |
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Rickettsiae |
Brain of diseased patient |
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Russell bodies |
Rheumatoid synovitis |
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Seratonin |
Small intestine (argentaffin cells) |
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Sialomucin (sialidase labile) |
Salivary gland |
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Sialomucin (sialidase resistant) |
Colon |
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Spirochaetes |
Lyophilised T. Pallidum reconstituted, smeared on to clean glass slide and air dried. |
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Steroids |
Adrenal cortex, seminiferous tubules |
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Sulphated mucin |
Cartilage, colon |
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Tryptophan |
Paneth cells, pancreas |
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Tubercle bacilli |
Tissue from diseased patient, commonly lung |
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Tyrosinase |
Skin (melanocytes) |
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Tyrosine |
Pancreas |
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Urates |
Gouty tophi |
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Viral inclusion body |
Surface lesions of diseased patient (herpes). Lung of diseased patient (cytomegalovirus) |
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