STAINS_Comments Flashcards
: essential component of Schiff reagent
Basic fuchsin
Method of choice for glycogen staining
PAS w/ diastase ctrl
Selective & highly specific for glycogen
Nest carmine
Obsolete Not specific for glycogen
Langhan’s iodine
Avoid celloidinization of slides
Alcian blue
Avoid Ehrlich’s hematoxylin
Alcian blue PAS
Mucicarmine stain
Acridine orange Lasts for only
2 hrs
Most commonly used stain
Sudan IV (Scharlach R)
: preliminary indicator of the type of lipid present
Nile blue
Nile blue sulfate
(dissol. neutral lipids)
(reacts w/ PL and FFA)
-Red oxazone
-Blue oxazone
stains basic groups in tissues
Alkaline Fast green
Sakaguchi Uses_____ reagent
Milton
Substrate: β-glyceroPO4
Gomori lead
Substrate: β-glyceroPO4
Gomori lead
Substrate: β-glyceroPO4
Gomori lead