Carbohydrate

• Periodic Acid Schiff 


  Glycogen
• Best Carmine


  Glycogen, Mast Cell, Fibrin and Mucin
• Langhan's Iodine (Carleton's)


  Not specific for Glycogen but also in amyloid
• Azure A 


  Glycosaminoglycans
• Metachromatic Toludine Blue


  Glycoaminoglycans
• Alcian Blue


  Acid Mucins
• Alcian blue + PAS


  Separating acid mucins from neutral mucins
• Mucicarmine


  Mucins
• Southgate's Mucicarmine


  encapsulated fungi like cryptococcus neoformans
• Hale's Dialyzed (colloidal) Iron


  Acid mucins
• Fluorescent Acridine Orange

  Acid mucopolysaccaride