A wide variety of histological stains are available from routine haematoxylin & eosin staining (general tissue structure) to any other stain required.

with common choices including:
 

• Masson’s Trichome
  (collagen & muscle)
• van Gieson (connective tissues)
• Alcian blue (proteoglycans/mucins)
• Miller’s elastin
  (elastic connective fibres)
• von Kossa (calcium)
• Alkaline Phosphate (enzyme activity)
• Safranin O (cartilage, mucins & mast cell granules)