20% Neutral Buffered Formalin is intended as a general purpose fixative for all tissues to be examined by light microscopy. It is often used for surgical and necropsy specimens, and is an excellent fixative for brain tissue.

Propylene Glycol is a component in the MasterTech Oil Red O Stain Kit. Running out of a component in your MasterTech Stain Kit? Replace your used or expiring item by purchasing an individual solution. Components are available in larger sizes to fit your rate of usage.

Stains myelin sheaths and nissl substances in one hour and fifteen minutes. MasterTech’s improved Luxol Fast Blue Stain Kit contains a specially formulated Luxol Fast Blue stain that reduces staining time to one hour and fifteen minutes, while most other kits on the market take over two…

FormaGuard™ Pads provide an effective way for lab personnel to guard against formaldehyde vapors and exposure by allowing formalin penetration into a highly absorbent core. The FormaGuard™ Pad is light blue, rigid, polycoated, and roughly 1/8" in thickness.

Stains for fungi and Pneumocystis jirovecii in just 15 minutes. This kit includes a 15 minute microwave procedure and the traditional one hour and thirty minute procedure. The MasterTech G.M.S. Staining Kit is suitable in lieu of and comparable to the Grocott Methenamine Silver Technique. The…

Michels Solution is used to preserve and transport specimens for examination in immunofluorescence studies.  While not a fixative, specimens can be held at room temperature for five days in transport medium before processing. This simple salt solution maintains pH, but does not kill most…

Modified Mayer's Hematoxylin. Requires no differentiation or separate bluing solution.

Proprietary alcoholic and acidified formulation. Produces a brilliant cytoplasmic stain with three distinct color variations in a short amount of staining time.

Proprietary progressive nuclear stain, considered a hybrid hematoxylin product. Select hematoxylin possesses the rapid staining qualities of Gill Hematoxylins along with the familiar  brilliant nuclear chromatin delineation of a Harris. Does not require daily filtering. Has no affinity…

Reagent ACS grade. Concentration is 29.8%.

Stains acid mucins (mucosubstances) blue in 40 minutes. This kit contains a specially formulated Nuclear Fast Red that reduces flocculation, not found in similar stain kits on the market. This greatly reduces staining artifacts and debris. Alcian Blue serves as the primary stain, producing vibrant…

Stains for Donovan bodies, fungi, Helicobacter pylori, Legionella pneumophila, and spirochetes in 45 minutes. This kit includes a 45 minute microwave procedure and the traditional one hour procedure. This kit is suitable in lieu of and comparable to the Traditional Steiner and Dieterle’s…

Stains fat and neutral fats in 10 minutes. Oil Red O serves as the primary stain, producing red fat with blue nuclei stained by the Hematoxylin. 100ml Stain Kit yields between 80 and 100 slides. Pint Stain Kit yields between 320-500 slides. Liter Stain Kit yields between 680-1000 slides. Slide…

Stains for mycobacteria (acid fast bacteria) in less than 15 minutes. This kit is suitable in lieu of and comparable to the Kinyoun’s AFB and Ziehl-Neelsen procedures for staining all mycobacteria, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The MasterTech AFB Stain Kit differs from these…

Phosphate Buffer 6.8pH is a component for the Giemsa May-Grunwald Bone Marrow Stain Kit. Pint. Running out of a component in your MasterTech Stain Kit? Replace your used or expiring item by purchasing an individual solution. Components are available in larger sizes to fit your rate of usage.

Optimized for differential staining of blood and blood parasites. Includes procedure for routine and stat staining. Used in the Wright-Giemsa Stain Kit.

1% Acid Alcohol differentiates bacteria from background tissue by removing excess Advance Carbol Fuchsin Stain used in the MasterTech Acid Fast Bacteria Stain Kit and the Fite’s Stain Kit procedures. Running out of a component in your MasterTech Stain Kit? Replace your used or expiring item…

Stains ferric iron in under 30 minutes. This kit is suitable in lieu of and comparable to the Perl’s Technique and Gomori’s Iron Reaction for staining ferric iron. The MasterTech Iron Stain is less hazardous than these procedures and provides more precise results by using lower strength…

A fast-drying permanent mounting medium, ClearMount™ is one of the fastest drying mounting medium ever formulated. It is optically clear as glass and completely neutral. It is compatible with virtually all clearing agents. Coverslipping with ClearMount is simple, fast, and inexpensive.…

Ready-to-use 10% neutral buffered formalin (NBF), pH 7.0.

Diastase contains alpha-amylase and depolymerizes glycogen into smaller sugar units, primarily maltose and glucose. These units are then removed from the tissue section by rinsing with water. Running out of a component in your MasterTech Stain Kit? Replace your used or expiring item by purchasing…

Formulated to work faster than Original Decal®. Can be used on all types of calcified tissue but is especially popular for use on bone marrow samples. Decalcifies the average bone marrow biopsy in less than one hour. Sections will cut beautifully and all types of routine and special stains work…

Stains axons, intracellular neurofibrils, and senile plaques in just 35 minutes. This kit is suitable in lieu of and comparable to the Gros-Bielschowski’s, Sevier-Munger, Rio-Hortega, and Holmes’ procedures for staining axons. The MasterTech Modified Bielschowsky’s Stain Kit…

Customer favorite lab storage product! Lightweight, secure, convenient long-term storage of paraffin blocks. High impact poly construction, six-drawer cabinet accommodates up to 1,500 paraffin blocks. Dimensions 17 ¼ x 9 ½ x 15 ½

Stains for bile or bilirubin in less than 15 minutes. Oxidization of the bile with Fouchet’s Reagent, provides the primary stain, producing green bile or bilirubin, with pink to red collagen and a tan to yellow background of muscle and cell cytoplasm, counterstained by Van Gieson’s.…

Very mild formic acid decalcifier formulated from semiconductor grade formic acid and highly purified reagent grade water. Ideal for decalcifying bone for immunohistochemistry. Will not destroy antigen sites during decalcification and can safely be used to demonstrate antigens in decalcified bone.…

A glyoxyl based, formalin-free fixative that is excellent for conventional histology, special stains and immunohistochemistry. Our formaldehyde-free solution provides the morphological detail of a standard aldehyde fixative while preserving high  levels of immunoreactivity. 1 Gallon