Regions are identified by the specific morphological features that are consistently found in a chromosome, such as the presence of prominent Giemsa-staining bands. The regions are named p1 ...

Today, most karyotypes are stained with Giemsa dye, which offers better resolution of individual bands, produces a more stable preparation, and can be analyzed with ordinary bright-field microscopy.

A new approach helps examine the proportion of cancerous and healthy stem cells in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia and how this influences treatment outcomes.

[10] Cytologic Diagnosis. A Tzanck smear is obtained when scrapes of herpetic lesions are followed by Wright-Giemsa staining. It is simple, rapid, and inexpensive, but has a high rate of false ...

The neutrophil present shows vacuolation characteristic of acute alcohol ingestion (May-Giemsa stain, original magnification × 1,000). Laboratory variables for the 18 months preceding the current ...