Movat's stain

"Pentachrome" redirects here. Not to be confused with Pentachromacy.

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]

Interpretation of results[4]
Colour Tissue type
Black Nuclei; elastic fibres
Yellow Collagen fibres; reticular fibres
Blue Ground substance; mucin
Bright red Fibrin
Red Muscle
  1. ^ Haust, M. Daria (April 1996). "In Memoriam: Dr. Henry Zoltan Movat, MD (Innsbruck), MSc, PhD (Queen's)" (PDF). Pathology News: Newsletter. Vol. 3, no. 4. Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Queen's University. pp. 6–8. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
  2. ^ Movat, HZ (1955). "Demonstration of all connective tissue elements in a single section; pentachrome stains". AMA Archives of Pathology. 60 (3): 289–95. PMID 13248341.
  3. ^ Russell Jr, HK (1972). "A modification of Movat's pentachrome stain". Archives of Pathology. 94 (2): 187–91. PMID 4114784.
  4. ^ "Penn MCRC > Modified Movat's Pentachrome Stain". Perelman School of Medicine, the University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on 2012-08-04. Retrieved 2012-08-08.