What is the function of fixation when preparing tissues for examination by light microscopy?

If you examined a tissue and observed that the cytoplasm in a few cells stained especially deeply by eosin, what might this tell you about those cells?

Monocytes can migrate out of blood into a tissue where they will differentiate into…

In the liver, the primary parenchymal cell is the…

Blood factor X is activated by both the intrinsic and extrinsic pathways to form factor Xa.  In turn, factor Xa activates prothrombin to form thrombin.  Thrombin is an enzyme that mediates all of the following occurring except for which one…  

At the gross level, hypertrophy of an organ will appear as…

Crypt cells in the intestine are an example of adult stem cells.  Which one of the following is false regarding these adult stem cells?

Eosin is responsible for ________ color of a cell’s cytoplasm when using H&E stain.

Cells that are exposed to environmental stressors are sometimes injured, but most of the time they will be just fine, eventually.  What dictates whether or not a cell becomes injured due to stress.

  A mineral property defined as the density of the mineral sample divided by the density of water (1.0 g/cm3) is __________.