Purpose Staining of anterior lens capsules with dye to facilitate completion of continuous curvilinear capsulorrhexis is now being used more frequently in phacoemulsification of white and mature ...

BOSTON — Takayuki Akahoshi, MD, reported on a new technique for safe and effective capsular staining for white, mature cataracts at the annual American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the approval of Vision Blue (trypan blue ophthalmic solution). Vision Blue is the first product approved in the United States for staining the ...

Because trypan blue selectively stains the anterior lens capsule and not the adjacent lens cortex, it can help surgeons distinguish the capsule while performing capsulorrhexis, a histology study ...

Bacterial pathogens produce complex carbohydrate capsules that dominate surface chemistry, inhibit phagocytosis and induce immunological responses by the host. The pneumococcus, or Streptococcus ...

Recently we have done two differential stains, the Gram stain and the Acid Fast stain. Both stains differentiate between bacteria chemically. The two staining techniques of Lab 4 differentiate by ...