1. There is scanty, variable basophilic cytoplasm which may be vacuolated. 2. The basophilic rim is formed as chromatolysis compresses the cytoplasmic skeleton. 3. The organism stains a basophilic colour and has a surrounding clear zone. 4. It is basophilic , and stains metachromatically due to proteoglycans. 5. The erythroid component consists predominantly or exclusively of proerythroblasts and early basophilic erythroblasts. 6. Basophilic regions correspond to the RER and free ribosomes.7. Neutrophilic and eosinophilic granules are peroxidase-positive, while basophilic granules are not. 8. Basophilic describes the appearance of structures seen in histological sections which take up basic dyes.9. "' Immunoblasts "'have significant basophilic cytoplasm and a central nucleolus. 10. This is the basis of the basophilic part of the spectrum of Romanowski-Giemsa effect.
