Certified
Dyes/Stains
Certified by the Biological Stain Commission All Dyes/Stains are for research use only. Not meant for drug, food household use
| Cat. # | Dyes/Stain | C.I. # | Major uses | Size | Price | |
| 10035 | Acid Fuchsin | 42685 | Stain for connective tissue and erythrocytes; and proteinaceous material in liver. Cain's method for mitochondria | 25g | 27.00 |  |
| 10050 | Acridine Orange | 46005 | Pickett's fluorescence method for fungi fluorescent against a dark background. For differentiation of nucleic acids and cytology | 25g | 62.00 | |
| 10350 | Alcian Blue 8GX | 74240 | Acid mucopolysaccharides.Cell walls. Cartilage granules. As a carbohydrate & mucosubstance stain in different pH levels. Movat's method for connective tissue stain. Monroe/Frommer method for pituitary staining. AB/PAS/OG method for human adenohypophyseal cytology | 25g | 200.00 | |
| 10360 | Alizarin Red S | 58005 | Minute bone and fetal ossification in mammalian embryos. Used with toluidine blue for distinction of bone & cartilage in mammalian embryos. Used with alizarin red for calcium deposits. | 25g | 36.00 | |
| 10840 | Aniline Blue | 42755 | Used with biebrich scarlet for staining collagen, reticulum, muscle, plasma, and nuclei. All connective tissues. Used as a counterstain with red nuclear dye. | 25g | 27.00 | |
| 10850 | Auramine O | 41000 | Staining paraffin sections of infected tissue. Acid-fast organisms exhibit fluorescence. | 25g | 56.00 | |
| 11150 | Azocarmine G | 50085 | Alpha, beta, and all D-cells of the islets of Langerhans and in all animals. | 5g | 37.00 | |
| 11240 | Azur A | 52005 | A nuclear stain. Cell granules McNeal method for leukocytes. | 10g | 70.00 | |
| 11200 | Azur B | 52010 | Distinction of cellular RNA & DNA in botanical tissue. Negri body stain. Malarial parasites | 10g | 52.00 | |
| 11210 | Azur II | 52010 52015 |
Morphological details of marrow cells, nuclei, and bacteria. | 10g | 38.00 | |
| 11260 | Basic Fuchsin (Rosaniline) | 42510 | Gram positive/negative bacteria. A pituitary stain. | 25g | 80.00 | |
| 18100 | Basic Green 4 (Malachite Green) | 42000 | In microbiology, distinction of diphtheria and other bacteria. A vital stain for onion epidermis. | 25g | 38.00 | |
| 11265 | Biebrich Scarlet (Ponceau BS) | 26905 | Used with picric acid/aniline blue for staining collagen, recticulum, muscle, and plasma. Luna's method for erythrocytes & eosinophil granules. Guard's method for sex chromatin and nuclear chromatin. | 25g | 20.00 | |
| 11310 | Bismarck Brown Y | 21000 | PAP for staining smears. Nuclei & granules. Mucin & calciform cells of intestine, cartilage & embryo. | 25g | 20.00 | |
| 11465 | Brilliant Cresyl Blue | 51010 | Platelets & reticulum of immature red cells. Counterstained with Wright's stain. | 10g | 52.00 | |
| 12410 | Carmine (Alum Lake) | 75470 | Glycogen stain. Elastic fibers in blood vessels, nuclei, & collagen. | 10g | 24.00 | |
| 12780 | Cresyl Fast Violet, (Cresyl Violet Acetate) | ~51180 | Vogt's method for nerve cells. A neurological tissue stain. Nissl substance & PAS-positive material. Powers & Clark method for spinal cord and brain with formalin or Bouins fixed. | 5g | 72.00 | |
| 12785 | Crystal Violet | 42555 | Gram positive/Gram negative bacteria, and filaments. Holzer's method for glial fibers (nerve). Amyloid in pathological human tissue. Determining chromatin & nucleoli in plant tissue. | 25g | 21.00 | |
| 14851 | Eosin Y | 45380 | Maximow's method for morphological details of marrow cells; a constituent of Wright Stain for elastic fibers in blood; as a eosin-phloxine counterstain. | 25g | 14.00 | |
| 15010 | Erythrosin B (Erythrosin extra bluish) | 45430 | Used with methylene blue as a plasma stain for nerve cells Use crystal violet for plant tissue.. | 10g | 20.00 | |
| 15500 | Fast Green FCF | 42053 | Lillie modification of Masson's for cells, cytoplasm, muscle, and collagen; Guard method for sex chromatin. | 5g | 20.00 | |
| 15670 | Fluorescein Isothiocyanate | Culing's Method for fluorescent antibody staining for demonstration of specific antigens. | ½g | 114.50 | |
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| 15942 | Giemsa | Dry Powder | Thin film stain for differentiation of types of leucocytes; Rickettsiae, bacteria, & inclusion bodies. May-Grunwald/Giemsa for bone marrow stain. Pinkus' acid orcein-giemsa for connective tissue staining | 10g | 37.00 | |
| 15940 | Giemsa | solution | Same as above; Prepared ready-to-use. | 100ml | 18.00 | |
| 16620 | Hematoxylin | 75290 | Weigert's iron hematoxylin for nuclear stains. Gill's hematoxylin for nuclei & nuclear chromatin | 10g | 24.00 | |
| 16910 | Indigo Carmine | 73015 | A stain for Negri bodies; used with acid fuchsin. Used in picric acid in contrast to basic fuchsin. ln plant cytology. | 25g | 17.00 | |
| 17920 | Light Green SF, Yellowish | 42095 | Grocott's method for fungi. Dahl's method as a bone and calcium stain. McManus' method for glycogen. Fraser-Lendrum method as a connective tissue stain | 10g | 15.00 | |
| 18700 | Methyl Green | 42590 | Myeloperoxidase stain; Used with bismarck brown for mucin & calciformcells of intestine, cartilage of trachea, and embryonic tissue; Used with toluidine blue for differentiating between diphtheria & other bacteria. | 25g | 42.00 | |
| 18600 | Methylene Blue | 52015 | For use in acid-fast bacteria, acid-fast baccilli, and as a rickettsia stain. Cain's method for mitochrondria. For staining Negri bodies in nerve cells | 25g | 36.00 | |
| 18850 | Methyl Violet 2B | 42535 | Highman's method for amyloid and nuclei staining. Used with crystal violet & bismarck brown Y for staining metachromatic granules of diphtheria organisms | 25g | 35.00 | |
| 19010 | Nigrosin, W.S. | 50420 | For staining the central nervous system. For the negative stainingof bacteria; used in place of India ink. | 25g | 30.00 | |
| 19020 | Nile Blue A | 51180 | A fat and lipid stain; differentiation of melamines and lipofuchsins. Staining for phospholipids. | 10g | 32.00 | |
| 19060 | Orange II | 15510 | Kalter's method used with fast green FCF, safranin O, and crystal violet for quadruple staining of tissues. Orange G substitution for better contrast | 25g | 22.00 | |
| 19070 | Orange G | 16230 | For staining fibrin, keratin, collagen, and erythrocytes. Staining alpha, beta, and gamma cells. For staining nissl substances and PAS-positive material | 25g | 22.00 | |
| 19350 | Phloxine B | 45410 | For staining inclusion bodies and nuclei. Thomas's method for malarial parasites. For staining hemaglobin and hemosiderin. For staining keratin, prekeratin and mucin. A beta cell stain Counterstain for hematoxylin. | 25g | 35.00 | |
| 19560 | Pyronin Y | 45005 | Cudder's method combined Gram/Pappenheim stain for gonorrheal pus. Kurnick's method used with methyl green which stains liver cells. For staining protein in the diazosulfanilic acid technique; a substitute for azur A. Can be used for pyronin B | 5g | 36.00 | |
| 20800 | Safranin O | 50240 | Prussian Blue method for hemosiderin. Weigert's iron hematoxylin with methachromic dyes which stain nuclei and granules. A alkaline phosphate stain. Flemming's method for staining chromatin and nuclear elements. | 25g | 27.00 | |
| 21610 | Sudan Black B | 26150 | A stain for fat in animal tissue. A stain for chromosomes, golgi, and leucocyte granules | 25g | 28.00 | |
| 22050 | Toluidine Blue O |
52040 | Alizarin red/Toluidine blue for distinction between bone & cartilage and the degree of ossification in mammalian embryos. Johnson's method for methachromatic tissue. With cresyl violet for staining DNA & RNA. With thionin for malignant cells of biopsy specimens | 50g | 29.00 | |
| 22720 | Wright Stain | For differentiation of blood corpuscles. Used with brilliant cresyl blue for staining platelets and reticulum of immature red cells. For staining blood and bone marrow films. | 25g | 31.00 | |
