Movat's stain is a pentachrome stain originally developed by Henry Zoltan Movat (1923–1995), a Hungarian-Canadian Pathologist in Toronto[1] in 1955 to highlight the various constituents of connective tissue, especially cardiovascular tissue, by five colors in a single stained slide.[2] In 1972, H. K. Russell, Jr. modified the technique so as to reduce the time for staining and to increase the consistency and reliability of the staining, creating the Russell–Movat stain.[3]
Colour | Tissue type |
---|---|
Black | Nuclei; elastic fibres |
Yellow | Collagen fibres; reticular fibres |
Blue | Ground substance; mucin |
Bright red | Fibrin |
Red | Muscle |
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