Special stain

Acid Fast Bacteria | Special Stain
Detection of Acid - fast bacilli

Alcian Blue 2.5 | Special Stain
Acid mucopolysaccharides

Alcian Blue/PAS | Special Stain
Acid and neutral mucins

Bile | Special Stain
Demonstration of Bile pigments

Colloidal Iron | Special Stain
Acid mucopolysaccharides and sialomucins

Congo Red | Special Stain
Demonstrtion of amyloid in tissues

Copper | Special Stain
Staining copper in tissues

Elastic | Special Stain
Stain for elastic fibers, collagen, and cardiac or skeletal muscle

Fite | Special Stain
Staining method for acid fast bacilli

Fontana-Masson | Special Stain
Stain for argentaffin material. For diagnosis of melanomas, carcinoid tumors and pheochromocytoms

Gomori’s Methenamine Silver (GMS) | Special Stain
Demonstration of Fungi

Iron | Special Stain
Demonstration of iron/hemosiderin in tissues

Jones’ Silver | Special Stain
Demonstrates glomerular basement membrane

Melanin Bleach | Special Stain

Mucicarmine | Special Stain

Periodic Acid Schiff (PAS) w/ Diastase | Special Stain

Periodic Acid Schiff (PAS) | Special Stain

Reticulin, Gomori’s | Special Stain
Connective tissue stain for demonstration of reticulin fibers in tissues

Trichrome (routine) | Special Stain
To demonstrate collagen and caridac or skeletal muscle fibers

Von Kossa – Calcium | Special Stain
For demonstration of calcium in tissues