Roy C. Ellis
IMVS Division of Pathology
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Woodville Road, Woodville, South Australia 5011
| Acetylcholinesterase | Cerebellum |
| Acid phosphatase | Prostate, liver or kidney |
| Adenosine triphosphatase | Muscle or liver |
| Adrenaline | Adrenal medulla |
| Alkaline phosphatase | Kidney or small intestine |
| Alphafoetoprotein | Primary carcinoma of liver |
| Aluminium | Lung or skin in diseased patient |
| Amyloid AA | Widespread but kidney, liver, spleen, lymph nodes, adrenal and thyroid are classically involved. |
| Amyloid AL | Widespread but heart, gastro-intestinal tract, peripheral nerves, skin and tongue are classically involved. |
| Argentaffin cells | Appendix or ileum |
| Arginine | Paneth cells and lymphoid tissue |
| Argyrophil cells | Stomach, small intestine |
| Arsenic | Hair, nails and bone |
| Ascorbic acid | Liver or adrenal cortex |
| Aspergillus | Lung in diseased patient |
| Astrocytes, fibrous | Brain white matter |
| Astrocytes, protoplasmic | Brain grey matter |
| Axons | Cerebrum, cerebellum, spinal cord |
| Basement membranes | Kidney |
| Beryllium | Lung in diseased patient |
| Bilirubin | Biliary cirrhosis, cholelithiasis |
| Biliverdin | Biliary cirrhosis, cholelithiasis |
| Calcitonin | Dog thyroid |
| Calcium carbonate | Bone, necrosis, atheroma |
| Calcium oxalate | Kidney or thyroid in oxalosis, bone |
| Calcium phosphate | Bone, necrosis, atheroma |
| Candida albicans | Skin of diseased patient |
| Carcino-embryonic antigen | Colon |
| Carcinoid | Appendix, small intestine, rectum and sigmoid colon. |
| Cartilage, fibrous | Invertebral discs |
| Cartilage, hyaline | Joints |
| Charcot-leyden crystals | Lung of asthmatics, eosinophil granulomas |
| Chitin | Hydatid cysts of liver and lung |
| Cholesterol | Adrenal cortex and atheroma |
| Chromaffin | Adrenal medulla |
| Collagen | Skin, lung or liver |
| Copper | Liver in diseased patient - Wilson's disease, primary biliary cirrhosis |
| Cryptococcus | Lung of diseased patient |
| Cysteine | Hair follicles |
| Cystine | Stratum corneum and hair shafts |
| Cytochrome oxidase | Liver, muscle and kidney |
| Degenerate myelin | Brain of patients with multiple schlerosis |
| Dehydrogenase | Liver, kidney and heart |
| Dendrites | Cerebrum, cerebellum, spinal cord |
| DNA | Lymph node |
| Dopamine | Mast cells of mice and rats |
| Elastic fibres | Aorta, dermis of skin, lung or intestine |
| Epidermis, intercellularbridges | Squamous cell papilloma, palmar and plantar skin |
| Esterase (non specific) | Liver, kidney or small intestine |
| Fatty acids | Fat necrosis |
| Fibrin | Foetal lung in hyaline membrane disease |
| Ganglion cells | Walls of the gastro-intestinal tract |
| Glucose-6-phosphatase | Colon |
| Glycogen | Liver |
| Golgi apparatus | Neurones |
| Gram negative organisms | Controls can be manufactured using a culture from a known organism and lung from autopsy. Culture together for 24 hours then fix and process. |
| Gram positive organisms | As for gram negative organisms |
| Haematoidin | Infarcts and abscesses |
| Haemazoin | Liver of malaria patients |
| Haemosiderin | Haemorrhage and haemochromotosis |
| Hepatitis B surface antigen | Liver in viral hepatitis |
| Human chorionic | Placenta gonadotrophin |
| Hyaluronic acid | Umbilical cord |
| Iron | Liver in hemochromatosis |
| Keratin | Palmar and plantar skin |
| Legionella pneumophilia | Lung of diseased patient |
| Leprosy bacilli (myco leprae) | Skin of diseased patient |
| Lipid | Corpus luteum of ovary |
| Lipofuschin | Heart, ganglion cells |
| Mallory bodies | Liver from alcoholic cirrhosis |
| Mast cells | Gastro-intestinal tract, intermuscular tissue or skin |
| Melanin | Negroid skin, naevus tumours |
| Microglia | Brain |
| Mitochondria | Renal tubules, liver and heart |
| Mucin | Small intestine, submaxillary gland |
| Mucopolysaccharides | Skin, umbilical cord |
| Muscle, striations | Skeletal muscle |
| Myelin | Cerebrum, cerebellum or spinal cord |
| Neurosecretory substance | Hypothalmus |
| Neutral fat | Subcutaneous tissue |
| Neutral mucin | Stomach |
| Nissl | Brain or spinal cord |
| Noradrenaline | Adrenal medulla |
| 6-nucleotidase | Thyroid or liver |
| Osteoid | Bone in osteomalacia |
| Oxytalan fibres | Periodontal ligaments |
| Paneth cells | Small intestine |
| Peroxidase | Granulocytes, erythrocytes |
| Phospholipid | Brain or spinal cord |
| Plasma cells | Rheumatoid synovitis, lymph nodes in plasmacytosis |
| Pneumocystis carinii | Lung in diseased patient |
| Purkinje cells | Cerebellum |
| Purkinje fibres | Heart (subendocardium) |
| Reticulin fibres | Liver, spleen, lymphoid tissue |
| Ribonucleic acid | Plasma cell, neurones |
| Rickettsiae | Brain of diseased patient |
| Russell bodies | Rheumatoid synovitis |
| Seratonin | Small intestine (argentaffin cells) |
| Sialomucin (sialidaselabile) | Salivary gland |
| Sialomucin (sialidaseresistant) | Colon |
| Spirochaetes | Lyophilised T. Pallidum reconstituted, smeared on to clean glass slide and air dried. |
| Steroids | Adrenal cortex, seminiferous tubules |
| Sulphated mucin | Cartilage, colon |
| Tryptophan | Paneth cells, pancreas |
| Tubercle bacilli | Tissue from diseased patient, commonly lung |
| Tyrosinase | Skin (melanocytes) |
| Tyrosine | Pancreas |
| Urates | Gouty tophi |
| Viral inclusion body | Surface lesions of diseased patient (herpes). Lung of diseased patient (cytomegalovirus) |
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