Microscopy Stains - Methylene Blue, Crystal Violet, Safranin and More

A magenta red acid dye used widely as a plasma stain. Also has many uses in plant and animal histology and cytology. 10 g. Learn More

A natural coloring agent used as a counter stain with eosin. A commonly used nuclear stain. 10 g. Learn More

A mixture of methylene blue, azure and eosinates of methylene and azure for use in the differentiation of blood cells in sections containing bone marrow or other hemopoietic tissues and for blood smears. Erythrocyte cytoplasm stains pink. The granules in basophils stain blue, those in eosinophils stain bright orange, and those in neutrophils light pink or grey. 5 g. Learn More

A bluish-violet basic stain frequently used in animal and plant pathology, bacteriology and histochemistry. It's most important application is in analytical histology and histochemistry in the metachromatic staining of tissue elements. 50 g.

C.I. No. 52040

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A basic stain commonly used in combination with fast green for sections of plant material. Nuclei and some tissue elements stain red to pink. Safranin O is also employed as a counter stain in the Gram stain. 10 g.

C.I. No. 50240

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A basic dye used extensively as a nuclear stain in cytology, pathology, histology and other fields of plant and animal biology. 10 g.

C.I. No. 52015

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One of the best counterstains for cytoplasmic structures when used with safranin O on sections of plant material. It is also for commonly employed general counterstains in the Fuelgen technique for DNA in the Periodic Acid-Schiff reaction for the staining of glycogen and carbohydrate-protein complexes. 10 g.

C.I. No. 42053

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The most commonly used counterstain for hematoxylin in routine histological preparations. Stains cytoplasmic structures, collagen and basement membranes various shades of pink to orange. 10 g.

C.I. No. 45380

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An acid dye component of the Gram stain. It may also be used as a red nuclear stain for cytoplasmic structures in sectioned material, and for staining bacterial capsules. 10 g.

C.I. No. 42555.

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