other stains

Acridine red 3B

Demonstration deposits of calcium salts & possible sites of phosphates activities

Aniline Blue

Cytoplasmic stain for counterstaining of epithelial sections

Basic Fuchsin

For deep staining of acid fast organisms

Main constituent of Feulgen's & Schiff's for aldehyde detection

Mayer’s Carmalum solution

Act as a basic dye & staining acidic substances

Celestine Blue

Recommended for routine staining of fixed sections

Congo Red

Best known as indicator stain for axis cylinders in embryos

Crystal violet

Nuclear stain for staining amyloid in frozen sections and platelets in blood

Gentian violet

Staining solution formed by mixture of crystal violet, methyl violet & dextrin

Iodine

For microscopic study of starch granules, amyloid, cellulose, starch & carotenes

Malachite green

Decolorizer and contrast stain for ascaris eggs, rbcs, bacterial spore stain

Methylene Violet

Metachromatic dye formed whenever methylene blue is heated

Neutral red

For observing cell granules and vacuoles of phagocytic cells

Night Blue

Used as substitute for carbol fuchsin in acid fast staining

Osmium Tetrooxide

Used to stain fats

-can be also used as a fixative for myelin and peripheral nerves for Electron Microscopy

Picric acid

Used as contrast stain to acid fuchsin

-may be used as stain, fixative, and decalcifying agent

Rhodamine B

Used with osmic acid to fix & stain blood and glandular tissues

Silver nitrate

For identification of spirochetes, reticulum & other fiber stain

-most commonly used agent for impregnation

Toluidine Blue

Used as substitute for thionine in fresh frozen tissues bodies

For staining of nissle granules or chromophilic

-acts as metachromatic and Supravital stain

Victoria blue

Demonstration of neuroglia in frozen sections