Used for the detection of collagen fibers in tissues such as skin, heart, etc. on formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded sections and may be used for frozen sections as well.
- Assess the degree of fibrosis in the liver
- Make treatment decisions
- Differentiate between smooth muscle and collagen fibers in tissue sections
This method is used to differentiate between smooth muscle and collagen fibers in tissue sections
Collagen fibers are stained blue, nuclei stained black and cytoplasm, muscle, erythrocytes are stained red.
The Trichrome Stain can assess the degree of fibrosis in the liver, which gives important information about stage and progression of a disease. Liver diseases such as hepatitis B and C viral infections, fatty liver disease, alcoholic liver disease and chronic biliary diseases show the formation of fibrous tissue including bridging fibrous septa leading to the end-stage process called cirrhosis. The stain is used to make treatment decisions; utilized to assess the effect of therapy, medications in clinical trials and needed for all liver biopsy specimen and tissues such as skin and heart.
Delivery information: 100 mL Kit Contains (100 mL - Bouin's Fixative, 75 mL - Weigert's Iron Hematoxylin Soln A, 75 mL - Weigert's Iron Hematoxylin Soln B, 100 mL - Biebrich Scarlet-Acid Fuchsin, 100 mL - Phosphotungstic/Phosphomolybdic Acid, 100 mL - Aniline Blue, 100 mL - 1% Acetic Acid, Aqueous, Kit stains up to 40 slides).
500ml Kit Contains (500 mL - Bouin's Fixative, 250 mL - Weigert's Iron Hematoxylin Soln A, 250 mL- Weigert's Iron Hematoxylin Soln B, 500 mL - Biebrich Scarlet-Acid Fuchsin, 500 mL - Phosphotungstic/Phosphomolybdic Acid, 500 mL - Aniline Blue, 500 mL - 1% Acetic Acid, Aqueous, Kit stains up to 200 slides).
