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Welcome to my portfolio of stains. Below is a sampling of slides I have cut and stained, featuring a variety of tissues.
H&E

Skin w/sebaceous glands
40x

Lymph
40x

Thyroid
100x

Prostate
40x

Bone
100x

Colon
40x

Brain
100x

Kidney (glomeruli)
100x

Placenta
100x

Lung
40x
Special Stains

Colon, 1-step trichrome
40x

Lung, EVG
40x

Colon, Alcian blue 2.5
40x

Liver, Masson trichrome
100x
The Heart
One of our final projects in lab class was to cut and stain an unknown block of tissue, then name the tissue using our knowledge of tissue identification. My tissue ended up being the heart, with its characteristic intercalated discs, stained using H&E and several special stains. All are 40x magnification.


H&E

Gram modified Brown-Brenn

1-step trichrome

Prussian blue

Mucicarmine

EVG

Carbol fuchsin for AFB

Reticulin
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