A vital stain in a casual usage may mean a stain that can be applied on living cells without killing them. Vital stains have been useful for diagnostic and surgical techniques in a variety of medical specialties. In supravital staining living cells that have been removed from an organism, whereas intravital staining is done by injecting or otherwi...
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<technique> A stain that is taken up by live cells and that can be used to stain, for example: a group of cells in a developing embryo in order to try to determine a fate map. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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a stain introduced into the living organism, and taken up selectively by various tissue or cellular elements.
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A stain that is taken up by live cells and that can be used to stain, for example, a group of cells in a developing embryo in order to try to determine a fate map.
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. a stain applied to cells or parts of cells while they are still living.
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