ZOOL 409: HISTOLOGY

Department of Zoology
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Slide 64

Kidney, human, postmortem, PAS stain. 

Some polysaccharides, including those of basement membranes, are stained purple by PAS (per-iodic acid, Schiff).  So this slide reveals basement membranes both within glomeruli and around tubules.

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