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• Stains & Dyes

- 3 -

• 3-amino-9-ethylcarbazole stain

- 4 -

• 4-(phenylazo)-1-naphthalenamine hydrochloride
• 46'-diamidino-2-phenylindole-2 HCl (DAPI) dye
• 46'-diamidino-2-phenylindole-2 HCl (DAPI) stain
• 4-phenylazophenol

- 8 -

• 8-hydroxy-136-pyrenetrisulfonic acid trisodium salt

- A -

• Abbott stain
• aceto-orcein stain
• Ach�carro stain
• acid blue 45
• acid dye
• acid fuchsin stain
• acid green 25
• acid phosphatase stain
• acid phosphatase stain with tartrate
• acid phosphatase stain without tartrate
• acid red 87
• acid red 91
• acid stain
• acid-fast bacillus (AFB) stain
• acid-fast stain
• acid-methenamine-silver stain
• acid-Schiff stain
• acridine dye
• acridine orange stain
• acridine yellow
• acriflavine HCl
• acriflavine neutral
• acriflavine stain
• AE1 immunoperoxidase stain
• AFB stain
• Ag-AS stain
• Albert diphtheria stain
• Albert stain
• Alcian blue 8GX
• Alcian blue stain
• Alcian yellow stain
• alizarin
• alizarin cyanin
• alizarin cyanin BBS stain
• alizarin purpurin
• alizarin red
• alizarin red S
• alizarin red stain
• alizarin yellow
• alizarin yellow R
• alizarin yellow R sodium salt
• alkaline phosphatase stain
• alkaline toluidine blue O
• alpha-3 chain collagen stain
• alpha-4 chain collagen stain
• alpha-5 chain collagen stain
• alpha-naphthyl esterase stain with or without fluoride
• Altmann aniline-acid fuchsin stain
• alum carmine
• Alzheimer stain
• amaranth
• amethyst violet
• amido black 10B stain
• amidonaphthol red
• aminoanthraquinone dye
• ammonium oxalate crystal violet
• ammonium silver carbonate stain
• amphoteric dye
• amyloid stain
• aniline blue
• aniline blue modified trichrome stain
• aniline blue water soluble
• aniline gentian violet
• anionic dye
• anthracene blue
• anthracene blue SWR stain
• antimony stain
• argentaffin stain
• argyrophil stain
• arsenic stain
• astrocyte stain
• ATPase stain
• auramine O fluorescent stain
• auramine-rhodamine stain
• azan stain
• azocarmine B stain
• azovan blue
• azure
• azure A stain
• azure B stain
• azure C stain
• azure I
• azure II
• azure-eosin stain
• azure-II-methylene blue stain

- B -

• B72.3 stain
• bacterial stain
• Baker Sudan black
• basic fuchsin hydrochloride
• basic fuchsin reagent ACS
• basic fuchsin stain
• basic fuchsin-methylene blue stain
• Bauer chromic acid leucofuchsin stain
• Becker stain
• Belke-Kleihauer stain
• Bennhold Congo red stain
• Bensley aniline-acid fuchsin-methyl green
• Bensley safranin acid violet
• benzo fast pink 2BL
• benzo sky blue method
• benzopurpurin 4B
• Ber-EP4 immunoperoxidase stain
• Berg stain
• Berlin blue
• Bernthsen methylene violet
• Best carmine stain
• beta-glucuronidase stain
• Betke stain
• Biebrich scarlet red
• Biebrich scarlet stain
• Biebrich scarlet water soluble
• Biebrich scarlet-picroaniline blue
• Bielschowsky stain
• Biondi-Heidenhain stain
• bipolar stain
• Birch-Hirschfeld stain
• Bismarck brown R
• Bismarck brown stain
• Bismarck brown Y stain
• Bodian copper-protargol stain
• Borrel blue stain
• Bowie stain
• brilliant black BN
• brilliant blue G250
• brilliant blue R250
• brilliant cresyl blue stain
• brilliant crocein MOO
• brilliant green
• brilliant vital red
• brilliant yellow
• bromcresol purple
• bromocresol green
• bromocresol purple desoxycholate
• bromphenol blue
• bromthymol blue
• Brown-Brenn stain
• Brown-Hopp tissue Gram stain
• butyrate esterase stain

- C -

• Cajal astrocyte stain
• Cajal gold sublimate stain
• calcium red
• calcofluor white stain
• carbolfuchsin stain
• carbolfuchsin-methylene blue stain
• carbol-thionin stain
• carmine
• carminic acid 50%
• carminic acid 95%
• C-banding stain
• CD79a stain
• CEA gold-5 stain
• CEA immunoperoxidase stain
• CEA-M stain
• CEA-P stain
• celestine blue B
• centromere banding stain
• Chicago sky blue 6B
• China blue
• chlorazol black E stain
• chlorophenol red
• chocolate brown
• chondroitin sulfate stain
• ChrA immunoperoxidase stain
• chromate stain
• chrome alum carmine
• chrome alum hematoxylin-phloxine stain
• chrome azurol S
• chrome red
• chrome violet
• chrome violet CG
• chrome yellow
• chromogranin A (ChrA) immunoperoxidase stain
• chromotrope 2B
• chromotrope 2R
• chromoxane cyanine R
• chrysophenine
• Churukian-Schenck stain
• chymotrypsin stain
• Ciaccio stain
• Clayton yellow
• cochineal red A
• colloidal iron stain
• Congo Corinth
• Congo red stain
• contrast stain
• Coomassie brilliant blue G-250
• Coomassie brilliant blue R-250
• cotton blue
• cresol red
• cresyl blue
• cresyl blue brilliant
• cresyl fast violet
• cresyl violet
• cresyl violet acetate
• cresylecht violet
• crocein scarlet 3B
• crystal violet stain
• curcumin
• cyclin D stain

- D -

• Da Fano stain
• Dane and Herman keratin stain
• Dane stain
• DAPI dye
• DAPI stain
• Darrow red stain
• del Rio-Hortega stain
• Delafield hematoxylin stain
• deoxyribonucleic acid stain
• dextran blue
• Diagnex Blue
• diaminobenzidine stain
• diastase-periodic acid-Schiff (D-PAS) stain
• diazo blue B
• diazo stain
• dibromofluorescein
• Dieterle stain
• differential stain
• Diff-Quik stain
• dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA) stain
• diphenylmethane dye
• direct fluorescent antibody stain
• DOPA stain
• Dorner stain
• double stain
• D-PAS stain
• DU-PAN-2 stain

- E -

• Ehrlich acid hematoxylin stain
• Ehrlich aniline crystal violet stain
• Ehrlich triacid stain
• Ehrlich triple stain
• Einarson gallocyanin-chrome alum stain
• elastic fiber stain
• elastica-van Gieson stain
• elastin stain
• endolymphatic dye
• eosin B spirit soluble
• eosin B stain
• eosin B water soluble
• eosin stain
• eosin Y free acid
• eosin Y sodium salt
• eosin Y stain
• eosin-methylene blue
• Eranko fluorescence stain
• eriochrome black A
• eriochrome black T reagent ACS
• eriochrome blue black R
• eriochrome cyanine R
• erioglaucine
• erythrosine B
• erythrosine B free acid
• ethidium bromide stain
• ethyl eosin
• ethyl green
• ethyl orange
• ethyl violet
• Evans blue

- F -

• fast blue B stain
• fast garnet GBC base
• fast garnet GBC salt
• fast green FCF
• fast green stain
• fast red B stain
• fast sulphon black F
• fast yellow stain
• fecal leukocyte stain
• ferric ammonium sulfate stain
• Feulgen stain
• fibrin stain
• Field rapid stain
• Fink-Heimer stain
• Fite stain
• Fite-Faraco stain
• Flemming triple stain
• fluorescein alcohol soluble
• fluorescein alcohol soluble USP
• fluorescein stain
• fluorescein water soluble
• fluorescence plus Giemsa stain
• fluorescent dye
• fluorescent stain
• fluorochrome stain
• Fontana methenamine silver stain
• Fontana stain
• Fontana-Masson silver stain
• Foot reticulin impregnation stain
• Fouchet stain
• Fraser-Lendrum stain
• fuchsin acid
• fuchsin basic
• fuchsin stain
• fungal stain
• Fungalase-F stain

- G -

• gallamine blue
• gallein
• gallocyanine
• ganglioside GD2 stain
• G-banding stain
• Genta stain
• gentian orange stain
• gentian violet stain
• Giemsa chromosome banding stain
• Giemsa stain
• Gill #2 hematoxylin blue stain
• Gill hematoxylin stain
• Gimenez stain
• Glenner-Lillie stain
• glycogen stain
• glycolipid stain
• glycoprotein stain
• GMS stain
• Golgi stain
• Gomori aldehyde fuchsin stain
• Gomori chrome alum hematoxylin-phloxine stain
• Gomori methenamine-silver (GMS) stain
• Gomori nonspecific acid phosphatase stain
• Gomori nonspecific alkaline phosphatase stain
• Gomori one-step trichrome stain
• Gomori silver impregnation stain
• Gomori trichrome stain
• Gomori-Jones periodic acid-methenamine-silver stain
• Gomori-Takamatsu stain
• Goodpasture stain
• Gordon and Sweet stain
• Gram iodine stain
• Gram stain
• Gram-chromotrope stain
• Gram-Weigert stain
• Gridley stain
• Grimelius argyrophil stain
• Grimelius stain
• Grocott-Gomori methenamine-silver stain
• Grocott-methenamine silver stain
• guinea green B

- H -

• H&E stain
• Hale colloidal iron stain
• Hansel stain
• Heidenhain azan stain
• Heidenhain iron hematoxylin stain
• Heinz body stain
• hematein
• hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stain
• hematoxylin stain
• hematoxylin-malachite green-basic fuchsin stain
• hematoxylin-phloxine B stain
• hematoxylin-phloxine-saffron
• hemosiderin stain
• heparan sulfate PG stain
• heparan sulfate proteoglycan (PG) stain
• hexamethyl violet
• HHF-35 stain
• Highman Congo red
• Hirsch-Peiffer stain
• Hiss stain
• histochemical stain
• Hoechst dye
• Hoffman violet
• Holmes stain
• Hortega neuroglia stain
• HRS4 MAb immunoperoxidase stain
• Hucker-Conn crystal violet solution
• Hucker-Conn stain
• hydrazine yellow
• hydroxyketone dye

- I -

• immunoalkaline phosphatase stain
• immunofluorescent stain
• immunogold-silver stain
• immunohistochemical stain
• immunoperoxidase stain
• indamine dye
• India ink capsule stain
• India ink stain
• indigo blue
• indigo carmine
• indigo synthetic
• indigoid dye
• indocyanine green
• indophenol blue
• indophenol dye
• indulin water soluble
• intravital stain
• iodine stain
• iodonitrotetrazolium
• iron hematoxylin stain
• iron stain
• Isamine blue
• isosulfan blue

- J -

• Janus green B
• Jenner stain
• Jenner-Giemsa stain
• Jones methenamine silver stain
• Jones stain

- K -

• Kasten fluorescent Feulgen stain
• Kasten fluorescent PAS stain
• Kasten fluorescent periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) stain
• keratin stain
• Kermes dye
• ketonimine dye
• Kinyoun acid-fast stain
• Kinyoun carbolfuchsin stain
• Kinyoun stain
• Kittrich stain
• Kleihauer stain
• Kleihauer-Betke stain
• Klinger-Ludwig acid-thionin stain
• Kl�ver-Barrera Luxol fast blue stain
• Kokoskin stain
• Kossa stain
• Kronecker stain
• K�hne methylene blue

- L -

• laccaic acid
• lacmoid
• lactone dye
• lactophenol cotton blue stain
• LAP stain
• Lauth violet
• Lawless stain
• lead citrate stain
• lead hydroxide stain
• Leder stain
• Leipzig yellow
• Leishman stain
• Lendrum inclusion body stain
• Lendrum phloxine-tartrazine stain
• Lepehne-Pickworth stain
• leuco crystal violet
• leuco patent blue
• leucomethylene blue
• leukocyte acid phosphatase stain
• leukocyte alkaline phosphatase (LAP) stain
• Leukostat stain
• Leu-M1 immunoperoxidase stain
• Leung stain
• Levaditi stain
• Levine alkaline Congo red stain
• light green SF
• light green SF yellowish
• Lillie allochrome connective tissue stain
• Lillie azure-eosin stain
• Lillie ferrous iron stain
• Lillie sulfuric acid Nile blue stain
• lipase 105 stain
• lipase 21 stain
• lipid stain
• Liquichek reticulocyte control and stain
• Lison-Dunn stain
• lissamine green B
• lithium carmine
• Loeffler caustic stain
• Loeffler methylene blue
• Loeffler stain
• Lugol stain
• Luna-Ishak stain
• Luxol fast blue stain

- M -

• Macchiavello stain
• MacNeal tetrachrome blood stain
• malachite green
• malachite green oxalate
• malarial pigment stain
• Maldonado-San Jose stain
• Mallory aniline blue stain
• Mallory collagen stain
• Mallory iodine stain
• Mallory phloxine stain
• Mallory phosphotungstic acid hematoxylin stain
• Mallory trichrome stain
• Mallory triple stain
• Mancini iodine stain
• Mann methyl blue-eosin stain
• Marchi stain
• Martius scarlet blue (MSB) trichrome stain
• Martius yellow
• Masson argentaffin stain
• Masson trichrome stain
• Masson-Fontana ammoniacal silver stain
• Maximow stain
• Mayer acid alum hematoxylin stain
• Mayer hemalum stain
• Mayer hematoxylin stain
• Mayer mucicarmine stain
• Mayer mucihematein stain
• May-Gr�nwald stain
• May-Gr�nwald-Giemsa stain
• M-DES stain
• Meissel stain
• mercurochrome 220
• metachromatic dye
• metachromatic stain
• metanil yellow stain
• methenamine silver stain
• methine dye
• methyl blue
• methyl green
• methyl green pyronin
• methyl green zinc chloride salt
• methyl green-pyronin stain
• methyl orange
• methyl orange reagent ACS
• methyl red
• methyl violet
• methyl violet 2B
• methyl yellow
• methylene azure
• methylene blue
• methylene blue chloride
• methylene blue dye
• methylene blue stain
• methylene green
• methylene violet
• methylene violet 3RAX
• methylene white
• methylthymol blue
• Milligan trichrome stain
• modified acid-fast stain
• modified auramine-rhodamine stain
• modified Kinyoun stain
• modified Steiner stain
• modified Ziehl-Nielsen stain
• morin
• Movat pentachrome stain
• Mowry colloidal iron stain
• MSB trichrome stain
• mucicarmine stain
• mucopolysaccharide stain
• Musto stain
• MY-10 clone stain
• myeloperoxidase stain
• myoglobin stain

- N -

• Nakanishi stain
• naphthol green B
• naphthol yellow S stain
• naphthol-ASD chloroacetate esterase stain
• natural dye
• natural red Certistain
• Nauta stain
• NBT dye
• NBT stain
• negative stain
• Neisser stain
• neutral red
• neutral stain
• new coccine
• new fuchsin
• new methylene blue
• new methylene blue N
• Nicolle stain
• night blue stain
• nigrosin B alcohol soluble
• nigrosin stain
• nigrosin water soluble
• Nile blue
• Nile blue A
• Nile blue A chloride
• Nile blue A sulfate
• Nile blue fat stain
• Nile red
• ninhydrin-Schiff stain
• ninhydrin-Schiff stain for proteins
• Nissl stain
• nitro dye
• nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) dye
• nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) stain
• nitroso dye
• Noble stain
• nonspecific esterase (NSE) stain
• Novelli stain
• n-propyl red
• NSE stain
• nuclear fast red stain
• nuclear stain

- O -

• oil red O stain
• orange G stain
• orange II
• orange IV
• orcein stain
• Orth stain
• osmium tetroxide stain
• oxalic acid stain
• oxazin dye
• oxytalan fiber stain

- P -

• Padykula-Herman stain
• Paget-Eccleston stain
• Paigen test
• Palmgren silver impregnation stain
• pancreatic islet stain
• panoptic stain
• PAP immunoperoxidase stain
• Pap stain
• PAPI stain
• Pappenheim stain
• Pappenheimer body stain
• paracarmine stain
• Paragon blue stain
• pararosaniline acetate
• pararosaniline HCl
• Paris green
• Paris yellow
• PAS stain
• PAS-orange G stain
• patent blue
• patent blue A
• patent blue V dye
• patent blue VF
• patent blue violet
• Pearl iron stain
• pentamethyl violet
• periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) stain
• periodic acid-silver methenamine stain
• Perls Prussian blue stain
• peroxidase stain
• PG stain
• phenosafranin
• phloxine B stain
• phloxine-tartrazine stain
• phosphomolybdic acid stain
• phosphotungstic acid (PTA) stain
• phosphotungstic acid hematoxylin (PTAH) stain
• phthalocyanine dye
• picric stain
• picrocarmine stain
• picroindigocarmine stain
• picro-Mallory trichrome stain
• picronigrosin stain
• Pizzolato peroxide-silver
• plasma stain
• plasmatic stain
• plasmic stain
• plasmocorinth B
• plastic section stain
• polychrome methylene blue stain
• polymethine dye
• Ponceau 3R
• Ponceau 4R
• Ponceau 6R stain
• Ponceau G R 2R
• Ponceau S
• Pontamine sky blue stain
• potassium metabisulfate stain
• potassium permanganate stain
• Procion blue HB
• p-rosaniline acetate powder
• p-rosaniline acetate stain
• protargol stain
• Prussian blue iron stain
• Prussian blue stain
• PTA stain
• PTAH stain
• Puchtler alkaline Congo red
• Puchtler Sirius red
• Puchtler-Sweat stain
• pyronin B
• pyronin Y
• pyrrol blue stain

- Q -

• Q-banding stain
• quinacrine chromosome banding stain
• quinaldine red
• quinoline dye
• quinoline yellow
• quinoline yellow SS

- R -

• Rambourg chromic acid-phosphotungstic acid stain
• Rambourg periodic acid-chromic methenamine-silver stain
• Rambourg stain
• Ranson pyridine silver stain
• R-banding stain
• reactive red 4
• reticulin stain
• reticulum stain
• rhodamine 6G
• rhodamine B
• rhodamine B base alcohol soluble
• rhodamine B O
• rhodamine blue
• rhodamine stain
• Richard-Allan Scientific Ultrafast Papanicolaou stain
• Romanowsky blood stain
• Romanowsky stain
• Romanowsky-Giemsa stain
• rosalic acid stain
• rosaniline dye
• rose bengal stain
• rosolic acid
• Roux stain
• ruthenium red
• Ryan stain

- S -

• Sabin-Feldman dye
• saffron
• safranin O
• safranin stain
• salt dye
• Sayeed stain
• SBB fat stain
• SBB stain
• scarlet red stain
• scarlet red sulfonate
• Schaeffer-Fulton stain
• scharlach red
• Schiff stain
• Schmorl ferric-ferricyanide reduction stain
• Schmorl picrothionin stain
• Schneider carmine
• Schultz stain
• Sedi-stain
• selective stain
• Sevier-Munger stain
• Shorr trichrome stain
• sideroblast stain
• siderocyte stain
• silver impregnation
• silver nitrate stain
• silver nitroprusside
• silver protein stain
• silver stain
• silver-ammoniacal silver stain
• Sirius red
• Sirius red F3B
• Smith silver stain
• Snook reticulum stain
• sodium bisulfite stain
• sodium hydroxide stain
• sodium thiosulfate stain
• spore stain
• Steiner stain
• Sternheimer-Malbin Sedi-stain
• Sternheimer-Malbin stain
• stilbene dye
• stilbene yellow
• Stirling modification of Gram stain
• Sudan black B (SBB) fat stain
• Sudan black B (SBB) stain
• Sudan black stain
• Sudan brown
• Sudan I
• Sudan II
• Sudan III
• Sudan IV
• Sudan orange G
• Sudan red 7B
• Sudan red III
• Sudan yellow
• Sudan yellow G
• sulfur dye
• supravital stain
• synaptophysin stain
• synthetic dye

- T -

• T method stain
• Taenzer stain
• Taenzer-Unna stain
• Takayama stain
• tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP) stain
• tartrazine stain
• tetrachrome stain
• tetramethylbenzidine stain
• thiazin dye
• thiazole dye
• thioflavine stain
• thioflavine T stain
• thioflavine T TG
• thionin acetate
• thionin stain
• thymol blue
• Tilden stain
• Timm silver sulfide
• titan yellow
• Tizzoni stain
• Toison stain
• toluidine blue O
• toluidine blue stain
• toluylene red
• TRAP stain
• triarylmethane dye
• trichrome stain
• triphenylmethane dye
• tropaeolin O
• Truant auramine-rhodamine stain
• trypan blue
• trypan red
• turkey red
• Turnbull blue stain

- U -

• ultrafast Pap stain
• ultramarine blue
• Unna stain
• Unna-Pappenheim stain
• Unna-Taenzer stain
• uranyl acetate stain
• urate crystals stain

- V -

• van Ermengen stain
• van Gieson stain
• Ventana ES stain
• Verhoeff elastic tissue stain
• Verhoeff-van Gieson (VVG) stain
• Victoria blue B
• Victoria blue R
• Victoria blue stain
• Victoria orange
• vimentin immunoperoxidase stain
• vital dye
• vital red
• vital stain
• von Kossa stain
• VVG stain

- W -

• Wachstein-Meissel stain
• Wade-Fite-Faraco stain
• Warthin-Starry silver stain
• water blue 1
• Wayson stain
• Weber stain
• Weber-modified trichome stain
• Weigert iron hematoxylin stain
• Weigert stain
• Weigert-Gram stain
• Weigert-Pal stain
• Weil myelin sheath stain
• Wilder stain
• Williams stain
• Wright stain
• Wright-Giemsa stain

- X -

• xanthene dye
• xylene cyanol FF
• xylidine Ponceau 2 R
• xylidine Ponceau stain

- Y -

• yellow corallin

- Z -

• Ziehl stain
• Ziehl-Neelsen stain