Special Stains

Stains for glycogen, mucin, fungi, and basement membranes in under 25 minutes.Optimized Schiff‚¬„s Solution serves as the primary stain, producing pink to red basement membranes, fungi, glycogen, and mucin against a green background, counterstained by...

Stains bone marrow Helicobacter Pylori, and gastric tissue in under 15 minutes. Over the past decade, the dye content for Giemsa stain has changed dramatically during the manufacturing process, reducing the polychromatic qualities in Giemsa stains,...

Stains for mycobacterium leprae and nocardia in less than 30 minutes. This kit is commonly used demonstrate the causative organism of leprosy. The MasterTech Fite's Stain Kit differs from similar kits or procedures in that Advanced Carbol Fuchsin (ACF)...

Stains for young and mature collagen in less than 10 minutes.Used to differentiate young and mature collagen as well as stain reticulum. Herovici's Working solution stains young collagen and reticulum blue and mature collagen red while providing a yellow...

Stains for copper in just 10 minutes. This kit includes a 10-minute microwave procedure and the traditional 18-hour procedure. Rhodanine Stock Solution serves as the primary stain, producing light brown to red cytoplasmic copper granules with blue nuclei...

Stains hyphae, conidia, elastin, mucin, and fungi in 1 hour and 40 minutes The Gridley’s Stain is a modification of the Bauer technique in which a fewer number of reactive aldehyde groups remain intact to react with Schiff’s Solution. The...

Stains for cartilage in less than 15 minutes. This kit is commonly used for the staining of cartilage. 1% Safranin O serves as the primary stain, producing pink to red cartilage, mucin, and mast cell granules, with purple to black nuclei stained by the...

Stains for Helicobacter pylori in 25 minutes.This kit is suitable in lieu of and comparable to Alcian Yellow/Toluidine Blue Helicobacter pylori Stains such as the Leung and Gibbon‚¬„s Technique. The Helico*Stat‚® Stain Kit differs from these procedures...

Stains epithelial mucins in just 20 minutes. This kit is suitable in lieu of and comparable to the Mayer Mucicarmine method for staining mucins. The MasterTech Muci Plus Stain Kit contains a specially formulated Mucicarmine stain known as Muci-10 Plus...

Stains collagen and muscle in just over one hour. This kit is suitable in lieu of and comparable to various Van Gieson’s staining procedures. Picro-Sirius Red serves as the primary stain producing red collagen and yellow muscle, with black nuclei...

Stains for fibrin, platelets, collagen, muscle, & red blood cells in one hour and 30 minutes. Fibrin is a fibrous insoluble protein produced in response to bleeding and is the primary constituent of a blood clot. In the MasterTech’s...

Stains for muscle, collagen, cytoplasm, and erythrocytes in 2 hours and 30 minutes. Trichrome stains are commonly used to identify increases in collagenous tissue to assist in the diagnosis of diseases such as liver cirrhosis. Goldner’s Trichrome...