Special Stains

Special Stains

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  • Used to identify acid-fast organisms
  • Other cells/tissue components are counter stained with light green
  • Comes in a convenient kit form

Acid - Fast Bacteria Stain Kit (Green Counterstain)

  • Used to identify acidic and neutral mucins
  • It separates the acidic and neutral mucins by color and can be used to distinguish all mucins in tissue sections
  • Comes in a convenient kit form

Alcian Blue PAS (ABPAS) Stain Kit

  • Stains the acid mucosubstances and acetic mucins
  • Strongly acidic mucosubstances are stained blue
  • Nuclei are stained pink to red
  • Cytoplasm is stained pale pink
  • Comes in a convenient kit form

Alcian Blue Stain Kit

  • Used for the differential staining of elastic fibers
  • Gold standard technique for the detection of amyloidosis
  • Comes in a convenient kit form

Congo Red Stain Kit

  • Used in the histologic visualization of fungi, basement membrane
  • Used in the indentification of some opportunistic organisms such as Pneumocystis carinii
  • Comes in a convenient kit form

Grocott’s Methenamine Silver (GMS) Stain Kit

  •  Helps in Histological visualization of Glomerular basement membrane in Kidney. 
  • It stains the Glomerular basement membrane which helps in assessing thickness, damage, and structural changes—key in identification of glomerular diseases.                            
  • Comes in convenient kit form 

Jones Methenamine Silver (JMS) Stain Kit

  • Helps in histological visualization of melanin pigment in tissues.
  • It stains melanin granules black, which helps in identifying pigmented cells that are found in conditions like melanoma and other pigmented lesions.
  • Comes in a convenient kit form.

Masson Fontana Stain Kit

  • Used to study muscular dystrophy, infarct, cirrhosis or glomerular fibrosis
  • Used to detect and analyze tumors on hepatic and kidney biopsies
  • Three dyes are employed to selectively stain muscle, collagen fibers, fibrin, and erythrocytes
  • Comes in a convenient kit form

Masson’s Trichrome Stain Kit

Melanin Bleach Stain Kit

  • Used in the histological visualisation of acid mucopolysacharides in tissue sections
  • Used for staining the capsule of the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans
  • Comes in a convenient kit form

Mucicarmine Stain Kit

  • Used to demonstrate neutral fats in liver tissue
  • Used to assess the presence and extent of neutral fat
  • Comes in a convenient kit form

Oil Red O Stain Kit

  • Polychrome staining method which depends on degree of cellular maturity and cellular metabolic activity
  • Designed to differentiate variety of cells in vaginal smear to detect vaginal, uterine and cervical cancers
  • Comes in a convenient kit form

PAP (Papanicolaou) Stain Kit (Harris Hematoxylin)

  • Polychrome staining method which depends on degree of cellular maturity and cellular metabolic activity
  • Designed to differentiate variety of cells in vaginal smear to detect vaginal, uterine and cervical cancers
  • Comes in a convenient kit form

PAP (Papanicolaou) Stain Kit (Modified Mayer’s Hematoxylin)

  • Used in combination with diastase enzyme to differentiate glycogen from PAS-positive elements in tissue samples
  • Comes in a convenient kit form

PAS-Diastase (PAD) Stain Kit

  • Used to detect the polysaccharides or molecules with high percentage of carbohydrate content such as glycogen and mucosubstances such as glycoproteins, glycolipids and mucins in tissues
  • Intended to demonstrate lymphocytes in tissues
  • Comes in a convenient kit form

Periodic Acid - Schiff (PAS) Stain Kit

Perls' Stain Kit

  • Used special stain to demonstrate reticulin fibers
  • Comes in a convenient kit form

Reticulin Stain Kit

  • Helps in histological visualization of elastic fibers in tissues.
  • It stains elastic fibers black, which helps in assessing the integrity and distribution of elastin in blood vessels and connective tissue.
  • Comes in a convenient kit form.

Verhoeff–Van Gieson (VVG) Stain Kit

  • Helps in histological visualization of calcium deposits in tissues.
  • It stains calcium salts black or dark brown, which helps in identifying tissue calcification and conditions involving abnormal calcium deposition.
  • Comes in a convenient kit form.

Von Kossa Stain Kit

  • Best staining technique to detect spirochaetes as well as small bacilli
  • Comes in a convenient kit form

Warthin Starry Stain Kit

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