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SPECIAL STAINS WHICH REQUIRE POSITIVE CONTROLS



  1. ACID FAST BACTERIA


  1. Fite’s
  2. Truant’s
  3. Ziehl-Neelsen


The above also require negative controls.


  1. AMYLOID


  1. Congo red
  2. Crystal violet
  3. Thioflavin T


  1. ARGENTAFFIN


  1. Churukian’s ammoniacal silver
  2. Schmorl’s


  1. ARGYROPHIL


  1. Churukian-Schenk


  1. BACTERIA


  1. Brown-Brenn
  2. Cresyl violet for helicobacter pylori
  3. Steiner’s (spirochetes)
  4. Warthin-Starry


  1. BILE


  1. Hall’s


  1. CALCIUM


  1. Dahal’s Alizarin red S
  2. Von Kossa


  1. CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM


  1. Bielschowsky
  2. Bodian
  3. Luxol fast blue


  1. CHROMAFFIN


  1. Churukian’s ammoniacal silver
  2. Schmorl’s


  1. COPPER


  1. Rhodanine


  1. DNA-RNA


  1. Methyl green-pyronin Y


  1. ENZYMES


  1. Naphthol AS-D chloroacetate esterase
  2. Non-specific esterase


  1. FIBRIN


  1. Carstair’s
  2. Frazer-Lendrum
  3. PTAH


  1. FUNGI


  1. Churukian’s ammoniacal silver
  2. Gomori-Grocott (GMS)
  3. PAS


  1. GLYCOGEN


  1. Best’s Carmine
  2. PAS with and without diastase digestion


  1. HEMOGLOBIN


  1. Ralph’s


  1. HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN


  1. Aldehyde fuchsin
  2. Orcein


  1. IRON (FERRIC)


  1. Pearl’s


  1. KERATIN


  1. Kreyberg’s


  1. MAST CELLS


  1. Giemsa
  2. Toluidine blue O


  1. MELANIN


  1. Churukian’s ammoniacal silver
  2. Melanin bleach
  3. Lillies


  1. MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDES


  1. Alcian blue
  2. Colloidal iron
  3. Kreyberg’s
  4. Southgate’s mucicarmine


  1. MUSCLE STRIATIONS


  1. PTAH


  1. NAPHTHOL AS-D CAE

       a)         Uterus


  1. NERVE FIBERS AND MYELIN


  1. Bielschowsky
  2. Bodian
  3. Luxol fast blue
  4. Luxol fast blue – PAS


  1. NEUTRAL FATS AND LIPIDS


  1. Oil red O
  2. Sudan black B


  1. NISSL SUBSTANCE


  1. Cresyl Violet Acetate
  2. Einarson’s


  1. NOCARDIA


  1. Brown-Brenn
  2. Fite’s
  3. Gomori-Grocott  (GMS)
  4. Warthin-Starry


  1. PANCREATIC ISLET CELLS


  1. Aldehyde fuchsin


  1. PITUITARY CELLS


  1. Wilson-Ezrin


  1. PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII


  1. Churukian’s ammoniacal silver
  2. Gomori-Grocott (GMS)


  1. RETICULUM


  1. Gomoris reticulum


  1. SPIROCHETES


a)        Steiner’s