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Hematology & Histology

Stain Expert


Stain Expert™: Stains, Recipes and Reagents

Stain Expert™ provides access to a wide range of stain recipes and staining reagents for Hematology and Histology. Stains such as Periodic Acid Schiff, Alcian Blue with Hyaluronidase, Giemsa Solution, and Phloxine-Tartrazine can be selected to find easy, precise access to catalog data, useful product information, material safety data sheets and certificates of analysis.

 
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Alcian Blue with Hyaluronidase
Alcian Blue, pH 1.0
Alcian Blue, pH 2.5
Alcian Blue, pH 2.5 Technique for C. neoformans, B. dermatitidis and R. seeberi
Aldehyde Fuchsin Elastic Stain
Aldehyde Fuchsin-Alcian Blue method
Auramine-Rhodamine Fluorescent Microwave Technique for AFB and other Acid Fast Organisms
Auramine-Rhodamine Fluorescent Stain for Acid Fast Bacillus
Azure A For Fresh Frozen Sections
Barr Bodies
Best's Carmine method
Bodian's Method For Nerve Fibers and Nerve Endings
Brown-Hopps Modification of the Gram Stain
Calcium Stain - Alizarin Red S, pH 4.2 (McGee-Russell)
Calcium Stain - Alizarin Red S, pH 7.0 (Dahl)
Calcium Stain - Von Kossa
Celestine Blue Method - Lendrum
Copper Stain (Rubeanic Acid)
Cresyl Violet Acetate Method for Helicobacter sp.
Dieterle Method for Spirochetes and Legionella Organisms
Eosin Y Alcoholic
Evans Blue as a Counterstain for Fluorescent Staining Procedures
Fite Acid-Fast Stain for Leprosy Organisms
Giemsa Protocol for G-banding of Chromosomes
Giemsa Solution
Gill No. 1 Hematoxylin for H&E Staining
Gill No. 2 Hematoxylin for H&E Staining
Gill No. 3 Hematoxylin for H&E Staining
Gomori Stain for Reticular Fibers
Gomori's AB Trichrome Stain
Gomori's LG Trichrome Stain
Gordon and Sweets Stain for Reticular Fibers
Gridley Fungus Stain
Grocott Methanamine Silver Fungus Procedure (with Chromic Acid as the oxidizer)
Grocott Methanamine Silver Fungus Procedure (with Periodic Acid as the oxidizer)
Hale's dialyzed iron technique
Heidenhain Azan Stain
High Iron Diamine Method
Hotchkiss-McManus PAS Procedure for Fungi
Iron Stain for Ferric Salts (Prussian Blue)
Iron Stain for Ferrous Salts
Kinyoun's Acid Fast Stain
Leishman's Stain for Peripheral Blood Smears
Mallory PTAH Technique for Cross-Striations and Fibrin
Martius-Scarlet-Blue Method for Fibrin
Masson's Trichrome Procedure
May Grunwald-Giemsa Procedure
Mayer Mucicarmine
Mayer's Hematoxylin for H&E Staining
Mayer's Hematoxylin For Use in Counterstaining Procedures
Metanil Yellow Counterstain
Methyl Green-Pyronin Method for Plasma Cells
Movat Pentachrome - Russell Modification
Mucicarmine Stain - Southgate Modification
Müller-Mowry Colloidal Iron
Nuclear Fast Red (Kernechtrot) Counterstain
Oil Red O for fat/lipid (isopropyl alcohol)
Oil Red O for fat/lipid (propylene glycol)
Periodic Acid Schiff
Periodic Acid Schiff With Digestion
Periodic Acid-Methenamine Silver Microwave Procedure for Basement Membranes
Periodic Acid-Methenamine Silver Procedure for Basement Membranes
Phloxine-Tartrazine Method for Viral Inclusion Bodies
Shikata's Orcein Method for Hepatitis B Surface Antigen
Steiner and Steiner Procedure for Spirochetes and other bacteria - Microwave procedure
Steiner and Steiner Procedure for Spirochetes and other bacteria - Standard procedure
Sudan Black B for Neutrophils
Toluidine Blue for Frozen Sections
Toluidine Blue Method for Mast Cells
Toluidine Blue O for Amyloid
TRAP (Acid Phosphatase) Stain for Osteoclasts
van Gieson Picric Acid-Acid Fuchsin Stain
Verhoeff Elastic Stain
Wade-Fite Stain for Leprosy Organisms
Warthin-Starry Microwave Method for Helicobacter and Nonfilamentous Bacteria
Warthin-Starry Technique
Wright Stain for Peripheral Blood Smears
Ziehl-Neelsen Method for AFB
Ziel-Neelson Microwave Method for Acid Fast Bacteria (According to Churukian)
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