Does anyone know how to tell the difference between a mast cell and basophil?

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I am going over histology images and for the life of me cannot tell the difference between a mast cell or basophil. Does anyone have advice or a good mnemonic??? Thank you!!

 

[threepeas]

shape of nucleus.

see #2 (introduction) on this link.

http://homepages.uel.ac.uk/u0315748/project.htm

the USMLE will be more interested in similar and dis-similar granule contents and physiologic roles versus identifying them on slides.

 

[dontstuddy]

also if you are looking at an image of a blood smear, it can't be a mast cell. doesn't help much if you are in tissue

 

[OSUdoc08]

I am going over histology images and for the life of me cannot tell the difference between a mast cell or basophil. Does anyone have advice or a good mnemonic??? Thank you!!

lol are you kidding?

a mast cell looks like an egg

a basophil looks like a neutrophil, but the cytoplasm is full of purple marbles