THE STAINS FILE
Acid Fast Bacilli
Acid Fast Bacilli - Kuper and May's technique
Acid Orcein and Giemsa stain for connective tissue components of skin
Alizarin Red S for calcium deposits
Aluminium in undecalcified bone - Irwin's method
Amyloid - Congo red, Thioflavine T
Argyrophilic granules - Grimelius
Basement membranes - PAS/Methenamine Silver
Bone Marrow sections, Jenner-Giemsa
Calcium deposits - Alizarin Red S method
Calcium deposits - Von Kossa
Collagen - Herovici's method to differentiate between young and mature collagen
Collagen - Masson trichrome
Collagen - Van Gieson (Curtis variant)
Congo red for Amyloid
Cresyl violet - polaroscopy for cryptococcue neoformans
Cryptococcus neoformans - Cresyl violet - polaroscopy method
Elastic tissue - Miller's stain
Fibrin - MSB (Martius Scarlet Blue)
Fungi - Grocott's method
Giemsa for many types of organisms
Gomori aldehyde fuchsin, modified for Pancreas
Gordon and Sweet's method for reticulin
Gram stain for gram negative and gram positive microorganisms
Grimelius for argyrophilic granules
Grocott's method for Fungi
Hepatitis B - Mod. Orcein technique
Herovici's method to differentiate between young and mature collagen
Irwin's method for aluminium in undecalcified bone
Jenner-Giemsa method for Bone Mrrow sections
Lendrum's Phloxine Tartrazine stain for Paneth Cells
Lendrum's Phloxine Tartrazine stain for viral inclusion bodies
Macchiavello Technique for viral inclusions
Masson trichrome for connective tissues
Mast cells - acidified toluidine blue
MSB (Martius Scarlet Blue) for fibrin and connective tissue
Miller's stain for elastic tissue
Orange G/Acid Fuchsin/Light Green for Pituitary
Orcein technique, modified for hepatitis B
Osteoid deposits - Von Kossa
Pancreatic cells - Gomori aldehyde fuchsin, modified
Paneth Cells - Lendrum's Phloxine Tartrazine stain
PAS/Methenamine Silver for basement membranes
Pituitary - Orange G/Acid Fuchsin/Light green
Reticulin - Gordon and Sweet's method
Spirochaetes - Warthin-Starry method
Thioflavine T for Amyloid
Toluidine blue, acidified for Mast cells
Urate deposits
Van Gieson (Curtis variant) for collagen
Viral inclusions - Macchiavello technique
Von Kossa for calcium deposits
Warthin-Starry method for spirochaetes
Updated 7.6.2000