Results:
• RBCs – orange
• Collagen and cytoplasm – pink
• Nucleus and acidic structures – blue
4. Saffron
EOSIN
1. Eosin Y – yellowish
2. Eosin B – bluish or imperial red
ROMANOWSKY STAINS
• Wright’s, Jenner’s, Leishman, Giemsa
• Can detect blood-borne parasites
• Can differentiate types of WBCs
OTHER STAINS
• Acid Fuchsin-Picric Acid – “Van Gieson’s Stain” – Connective Tissue
• Acid Fuchsin – Masson Stain – Collagen, Smooth Muscle, Mitochondria
• Acridine Orange – DNA – Green; RNA – Red
• Acridine Red 3B – Calcium salts
• Alcian Blue – Acid mucopolysaccharides
• Alizatin Red S – Calcium salts
• Aniline Blue – Epithelial cells (Counterstain)
• Azocarmine – Nuclei – DEEP red; cytoplasm – PALE red
• Basic Fuchsin – Acid-fast organisms, mitochondria, smooth muscles
o Feulgen’s and Schiff’s – Aldehydes
o Van Gieson’s – Connective tissues, mucin, elastic tissues
• Benzidine – Hemoglobin
5. Fibrin
a. MSN – Yellow to Red to Blue
b. PTAH – Dark Blue
STAINING OF MUSCLE AND BONE STAINING OF MICROORGANISMS
1. Muscle 1. Gram stain
a. Gomori’s Trichrome – Red a. Counterstain – carbolfuchsin or neutral
b. Frozen Section of Gomori’s Trichrome red
i. Myofibrils – Green b. GP – blue black; GN – red
ii. Intermyofibrillar –Bright Red 2. Modified Brown-Brenn
iii. Nemaline rods – Ragged Red a. Counterstain – basic fuchsin
c. PTAH – Blue b. GP – blue; GN – red
3. Gram-Twort Stain
2. Bone a. Counterstain – neutral red and fast green
a. Schmorl’s Picro-Thonin b. GP – blue-black; GN – pink-red
i. Lacuna – Dark Brown-Black
ii. Canaliculi – Dark Brown-Black 4. Ziehl-Neelsen Stain
iii. Bone Matrix – Yellow a. Mycobacteria – red
b. Alizarin Red S – Orange-Red 5. Fite Stain
c. Von Kossa– Black or Brown-Black a. M. leprae – Bright red
b. Nocardia – Bright red
STAINING OF NERVOUS TISSUE 6. Microwave Auramine-Rhodamine
1. Cresyl Fast Violet a. Acid-fast organisms – reddish-yellow
a. Nissl Bodies – purple-dark blue fluorescence
b. Neurons – pale purple ble
2. Cajal’s Gold Sublimate 7. Toluidine Blue
a. Astrocytes – bludh black a. Helicobacter – dark-blue
b. Nerve cells – red 8. Cresyl violet
3. Modified Holzer’s Method a. Helicobacter – blue-violet
a. Glial fibrils – blue
9. Dierterle
4. Myelin Sheath a. L. pneumophila – brown to black
a. Weigert-Pal – Blue Black b. Spirochetes – brown to black
b. Luxol Fast Blue – Blue Black 10. Warthin-Starry
c. Luxol Fast Blue-H&E – Blue/Green a. Spirochetes – black
d. Luxol Fast Blue-PAS-Hematoxylin – 11. Steiner and Steiner Microwave
Blue/Green a. Spirochetes – dark brown to black
e. Weil’s Black b. H. pylori – dark brown to black
f. Baker’s Chromate-Acid Hematin – Dark c. L. pneumophila – dark brown to black
Blue d. Other non-filamentous bacteria – dark
g. Swank & Davenport’s Marchi – Black brown to black
(Degenerating Myelin)
h. Methylene Blue-Azure II-Basic Fuchsin - 12. Grocott Methenamine Silver Nitrate
Blue a. Fungi cell wall – black
7. Modified PTAH
8. Bodian’s Stain
9. Golgi’s Silver staining
10. Modified Golgi method
11. Osmium Tetroxide