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Periodic acid–Schiff (PAS) is a staining method used to detect polysaccharides such as glycogen, and mucosubstances such as glycoproteins, glycolipids and mucins in tissues. The reaction of periodic acid oxidizes the vicinal diols in these sugars, usually breaking up the bond between two adjacent carbons not involved in the glycosidic linkage or...
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<technique> A histochemical technique based on periodic acid oxidation of a substance containing the 1,2-glycol grouping. ... It is used for staining carbohydrates as the resulting dialdehyde reacts with Schiff reagent to form a coloured product. ... Substances that can be demonstrated include carbohydrates, mucins, cartilage matrix, collagen...
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(PAS) Type: Term Pronunciation: shif Definitions: 1. a tissue-staining procedure in which 1,2-glycol groupings are first oxidized with periodic acid to aldehydes that then react with the sulfite leucofuchsin reagent of Schiff and turn red-violet; strong staining occurs with polysaccharides, such as glycogen, and mucopolysaccharid...
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