Special Stains Available
Special Stains Available:
- Acid fast bacillus - Ziehl Neelson (Fite for Mycobacterium leprae specifically)
- Alcian Blue – acid mucins
- Alcian Yellow toluidine blue – H. pylori
- Colloidal iron – acid mucins
- Congo Red - amyloid
- Cresyl violet – neurons (often used together with LFB)
- Diff Quik – hematological smears or mast cells in tissues
- Fontana masson – neuroendocrine cells, melanin
- Gram - bacteria
- Gomori or Grocott methenamine silver (GMS) - fungus
- Hall's bile stain - bile
- Hematoxylin and eosin – All purpose stain, already offered
- Luxol Fast Blue – myelin sheath (often used with cresyl violet
- Melanin bleaching – to remove melanin from tissues
- Mucicarmine – acid mucins
- Papanicolaou – Cytology preparations
- Periodic acid Schiff – Hematoxylin – basement membranes and glycogen
- Periodic acid Schiff with diastase – basement membranes
- Periodic acid Schiff - Light green – fungus, best in skin
- Prussian Blue - iron
- Reticulin – type III collagen fibers
- Rhodanine - copper
- Toluidine blue – mast cells
- Trichrome – collagen and connective tissue
- Verhoeff van Gieson – elastic fibers
- Von Kossa – calcium deposits
- Wright – hematology smears, mast cells in tissues, H pylori in the stomach
Immunohistochemistry assays available:
- DAB on human tissues: Researchers must provide primary antibody raised in rabbit or mouse (including IgG control, if desired)
- DAB on mouse tissues: Researchers must provide primary antibody raised in rabbit (including IgG control, if desired)