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How Romanowsky stains work and why they remain valuable — including a proposed universal Romanowsky staining mechanism and a rational troubleshooting scheme

RW Horobin School of Life Sciences, The University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, UKCorrespondence"[email protected]
Pages 36-51 | Published online: 14 Jan 2011

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D Stefanović, M Stefanović & Z Nikin. (2013) Romanowsky-Giemsa as a counterstain for immunohistochemistry: optimizing a traditional reagent. Biotechnic & Histochemistry 88:6, pages 329-335.
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