Special Stains

Stains basement membrane and reticulum fibers in just 20 minutes.This kit includes a 20 minute microwave procedure and the traditional one hour and thirty minute procedure. This kit is suitable in lieu of and comparable to the Periodic Acid/Methenamine...

Stains for mycobacteria (acid fast bacteria) in as little as 10 minutes. This procedure is popular in labs which have a fluorescence capable microscope, as the contrast is much greater than standard light microscope procedures. Auramine O-Rhodamine B...

Stains for Helicobacter pylori, Mast Cells, and Bone Marrow in an easy 3-stain, one-step, 15-minute procedure.CellMate is the perfect helper for busy pathology laboratories. Using the simple three stains/one-step procedure any technician or physician can...

Stains for gram positive and gram-negative bacteria in less than five minutes. This kit is suitable in lieu of and comparable to the Brown and Brenn, Brown and Hopps, and Modified Gram Methods for staining gram positive and gram-negative bacteria. The...

Stains acid mucins (mucosubstances) blue in 40 minutes. This kit contains a specially formulated Nuclear Fast Red that reduces flocculation, not found in similar stain kits on the market. This greatly reduces staining artifacts and debris. Alcian Blue...

Stains for the two types of muscle fibers and their subtypes in 50 minutes. Traditional ATPase procedures employ the use of a barbiturate buffer, which is a controlled substance. American MasterTech's Myofibrillar ATPase Stain Kit contains no...

Stains for amyloid deposits in just over 60 minutes.This kit is suitable in lieu of and comparable to the alkaline congo red method, commonly used to stain for primary, secondary, myeloma-associated, or tumor-associated amyloidosis. The MasterTech Congo...

Stains atypical, inflammatory, and malignant cells in cytology smears in 15 minutes. Both OG-6 and EA-50 serve as primary stains, producing pink, green, orange, yellow, or brown cytoplasm, pink to red nucleoli, cilia, squamous cells, and red blood cells...

Stains for deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in 35 minutes. Also known as the Feulgen Reaction, hydrochloric acid removes the purine bases from the DNA, leaving the sugars and phosphates. This creates an aldehyde group that can be demonstrated by the Optimized...

Still one of the most popular tissue adhesives used today. Just apply a thin coating to the slide. Albumin can be used on routine and most special stains.

Stains for bone marrow, core sections, mast cells, and Helicobacter pylori in 25 minutes. This procedure is used to differentiate cells present in hematopoietic tissue. Both May-Grunwald and Giemsa Stock serve as primary stains, producing blue to purple...

Stains for gram positive and gram negative bacteria in just under 20 minutes.This kit is suitable in lieu of and comparable to various Brown-Hopps staining procedures. Basic Fuchsin and Crystal Violet both serve as primary stains, producing blue stained...