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

Actin, Smooth Muscle | IHC
Alpha smooth muscle isoforms, myoepithelium etc.

Alcian Blue 2.5 | Special Stain
Acid mucopolysaccharides

Alcian Blue/PAS | Special Stain
Acid and neutral mucins

ALK-1 | IHC
It is expressed in only few cells in the developing and mature nervous system Ð glial cells, neurons, endothelial cells and pericytes.

Androgen Receptor (AR) | IHC
Detection of androgen receptors. Primarily used in carcinomas of the breast and prostate.

BCL-2 | IHC
Follicular lymphoma, other B and T cell lymphomas, soft tissue tumors

BCL-6 | IHC
Follicular lymphoma, follicular center B cells, DLBCL subset

beta-Amyloid (1-42) | IHC
Detection of the antigen in postmortem, formalin fixed and paraffin embedded tissue

beta-Catenin | IHC
Fibromatosis, colorectal carcinoma

Bile | Special Stain
Demonstration of Bile pigments

BK Virus (SV40) | IHC
Detection of BK (SV40 family) virus in post-transplant kidney

C-Kit (CD117) | IHC
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors, mast cells

c-Myc | IHC
Used to aid in the characterization of lymphoma.

CA 19-9 | IHC
Pancreas, GI, ovary, lung and transitional cell carcinoma

CA125 | IHC
Non-mucinous ovarian carcinoma, serous and endometroid adenocarcinomas

Calcitonin | IHC
Thyroid medullary carcinoma, thyroid C cells

Calretinin | IHC
Normal and reactive mesothelium, mesothelioma and distinguishing mesothelioma from adeocarcinoma

CD10 (CALLA) | IHC

CD138 | IHC

CD15 | IHC

CD163 | IHC

CD1a | IHC

CD2 | IHC
Pan – T cell – thymic and peripheral T lymphocytes, mast cells, NK cells, T cell lymphoma subsets

CD20 | IHC

CD21 | IHC
Normal follicular dendritic cells; dendritic cell tumor/sarcomas, B cell subset

CD23 | IHC
B-CLL, Small lymphocytic (B cell) lymphoma

CD3 | IHC
Normal and neoplastic T cells

CD30 | IHC
Mononuclear Hodgkin's cells, Reed Sternberg cells of Hodgkin's lymphoma and anaplastic large cell lymphoma; plasma cells

CD31 | IHC
Endothelium, vascular neoplasms, plasma cells

CD34 | IHC
Myeloid progenitor cells, endothelium, vascular tumors

CD4 | IHC

CD43 | IHC

CD45, leukocyte common antigen | IHC

CD5 | IHC

CD56 | IHC
Neural and neuroendocrine tumor, soft tissue tumor subset, NK cells, plasma and T-cell subsets

CD57 | IHC
Neural and neuroendocrine tumor, follicular center cell lymphoma

CD61 | IHC
Megakaryocytes, platelets

CD68 Red | IHC
Macrophages

CD68 | IHC
Macrophages

CD7 (Leu9) | IHC
Thymocytes and mature T cells

CD79a | IHC
Pan B cells

CD8 | IHC
Cytotoxic / suppressor T cells

CD99 | IHC
T cells, cortical thymocytes, Ewing's sarcoma / PNET, sex cord stromal tumors

CDX2 | IHC
Enteric differentitation, GI tumors, colorectal carcinoma, GI origin of metastatic adenocarcinomas and carcinoids. Mucinous carcinomas of the ovary

Chromogranin A | IHC
Neuroendocrine neoplasms

Colloidal Iron | Special Stain
Acid mucopolysaccharides and sialomucins

Congo Red | Special Stain
Demonstrtion of amyloid in tissues

Copper | Special Stain
Staining copper in tissues

Cyclin D1 | IHC
Mantle cell lymphoma, breast cancer

Cytokeratin (Pan) | IHC
Normal and abnormal epithelial cells and to determine lineage of poorly differentiated tumors

Cytokeratin 19 | IHC
Variety of epithelium and epithelial malignancies including adenocarcinoma of colon, stomach, pancreas, biliary tract and breast

Cytokeratin 20 | IHC
GI tumors, transitional cell carcinoma, Merkel cell tumors

Cytokeratin 5/6 | IHC
Tumors with squamous differentiation, malignant mesothelioma versus adenocarcinoma of lung, myopeithelial cells, benign vs. malignant breast intraductal proliferation

Cytokeratin 7 | IHC
Normal and neoplastic cells of ovary, lung and breast. Often used in conjunction with CK20

Cytokeratin 8/18 | IHC
Found in most simple epithelium. Adenocarcinomas and most non-keratinizing squamous carcinomas. Will stain Paget cells.

Cytokeratin CAM 5.2 | IHC

Cytokeratin-HMW (34BE12) | IHC
Squamous cell and subsets of adenocarcinoma and transitional cell carcinoma, prostate basal cells, hyperplastic prostate versus prostate cancer

D2-40 Podoplanin | IHC
Lymphatic endothelium, lymphangiomas, Kaposi sarcomas and subset of angiosarcomas.

Desmin | IHC
Skeletal and smooth muscle tumors

E-cadherin | IHC
Distinguishes between lobular and ductal epithelial proliferations

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

Epithelial Membrane Antigen | IHC
Identification of epithelial membrane antigen in adenocarcinomas of secretory epithelium, malignant mesothelioma, renal cell carcinoma and meningiomas

Estrogen Receptor (ER) | IHC

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

GATA 3 | IHC
Expressed in breast carcinoma and urothelial carcinoma

Glial fibrillary acid protein | IHC

Glycophorin A | IHC
Erythroid cell precursors, red blood cells and erythroid leukemias

Glypican3 | IHC

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

GranzymeB | IHC

Gross Cystic Disease Fluid Protein 15 | IHC

Hepatocyte(HepPar1) | IHC

Her2 | IHC
Used for the semi-quantitative detection of HER2 antigen in neoplastic breast tissue.

HMB-45 Red | IHC
Used as a melanocyte marker to aid in the differential diagnosis of melanocytic verses non-melanocytic tumors.

HMB-45 | IHC
Used as a melanocyte marker to aid in the differential diagnosis of melanocytic verses non-melanocytic tumors.

IgG4 | IHC

Inhibin | IHC

INI-1 | IHC
To distinguish malignant rhabdoid tumors and other malignant central nervous system tumors

Iron | Special Stain
Demonstration of iron/hemosiderin in tissues

ISH EBER
Ventana Ultra

ISH Kappa
Ventana Ultra

ISH Lambda
Ventana Ultra

Jones’ Silver | Special Stain
Demonstrates glomerular basement membrane

Ki-67 | IHC
Cell proliferation marker

Lysozyme | IHC
Granulocytes and histiocytes. Marker for leukemias and histiocytic neoplasms

Mammaglobin | IHC
Breast carcinoma, salivary gland lesion and sweat gland carcinoma

Melan-A (Red) | IHC
Melanocytic lesions

Melanin Bleach | Special Stain

MLH-1 | IHC
Identify DNA mismatch repair protein

MSH-2 | IHC
Mouse monoclonal antibody directed against mismatch repair protein MSH2. This antibody is used in the identification of microsatellite instability.

MSH-6 | IHC
Identify DNA mismatch repair protein

Mucicarmine | Special Stain

MUM1 Protein | IHC
B cells in germinal centers, plasma cells, activated T cells and related hematolymphoid neoplasmas. Along with CD30 used as a marker for Hodgkin's and reed Sternberg cells

Myeloperoxidase | IHC

Myogenin | IHC
Rhabdomyosarcoma

Napsin A | IHC
Mouse monoclonal antibody directed against napsin which is a pepsin like aspartic proteinase. High expression is seen is lung and kidney

Neurofilament | IHC
Neural, neuroendocrine and endocrine tumors

Oct 3/4 | IHC
Seminoma, dysgerminoma, embryonal carcinoma