Special Stains

Stains leukocyte granules in bone marrow smears and cores in just 10 minutes. The MasterTech Sudan Black B Stain Kit contains a modified, stronger Sudan Black B stain which requires half the time of similar stains or kits on the market. Sudan Black B...

Stains for collagen, elastic, mucous, muscle, pituitary cells, and reticulum in 20 minutes. Both Acid Fuchsin and Aniline Blue/Orange G serve as primary stains, producing blue beta cells, collagen fibers, mucous, and reticulum, with red muscle, alpha...

Stains axons, intracellular neurofibrils, and senile plaques in just 35 minutes. This kit is suitable in lieu of and comparable to the Gros-Bielschowski’s, Sevier-Munger, Rio-Hortega, and Holmes’ procedures for staining axons. The MasterTech...

Stains for Donovan bodies, fungi, Helicobacter pylori, Legionella pneumophila, and spirochetes in 45 minutes. This kit includes a 45 minute microwave procedure and the traditional one hour procedure. This kit is suitable in lieu of and comparable to the...

Stains for collagen and muscle in one hour and 15 minutes. The MasterTech One-Step Trichrome Kit makes staining for collagen or muscle, fast and easy. Unlike traditional one-step procedures, Modified Mayer's Hematoxylin is used instead of Weigert's...

Stains for calcium deposits in just 20 minutes.Silver Nitrate serves as the primary stain, reacting with the anions and ultra-violet light to produce brown to black calcium salts against pink to red cytoplasm and nuclei, counterstained by Nuclear Fast...

Stains for acid mucosubstances in just 45 minutes. Working Colloidal Iron Solution is absorbed and reacts with a working Prussian Blue Solution, serving as the primary stain by producing blue acid mucosubstances against pink to red collagen...

Used in Gram stains for the qualitative demonstration of Gram positive and negative bacteria. Available for purchase in 8 oz and 16 oz bottles.

Intended for the qualitative demonstration of Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria. Kit contains Crystal Violet 1% Aqueous, Gram's Iodine, Basic Fucshin 0.5% Aqueous, Gallego's Differentiating Solution, Tartrazine, and Cellosolve. Available for...