Wheaton 900234 Stainless Steel Staining Slide Rack for 900303 Staining Dish, Holds 30 Slides (Case of 3)

These mix-and-match components offer greater flexibility in meeting your requirements. This staining dish accommodates 16, 20 and 30 slide racks. It holds slides sizes 3” x 1” (75mm x 25 mm), 3” x 1-1/2 “(75mm x 38 mm), and 3” x 2” (75mm x 51 mm). Dish, lid and glass slide racks are manufactured from soda-lime glass that resists staining from Eosin or Hematoxylin and the stainless rack with hinged handle is resistant to staining solutions. Approximate inside dimensions: 118mm L x 88mm W x 70mm D. Wheaton offers a variety of staining dishes and Coplin jars suitable for various histology staining. Routine staining is performed to give contrast to the tissue being examined, as without staining it is very difficult to see differences in cell morphology. Hematoxylin and eosin (abbreviated H&E) are the most commonly used stains in histology and histopathology. Hematoxylin colors nuclei blue, eosin colors the cytoplasm pink. To see the tissue under a microscope, the sections are stained with one or more pigments. There are hundreds of various techniques which have been used to selectively stain cells and cellular components. Other compounds used to color tissue sections include Safranin, Oil Red O, Congo red, Fast Green FCF, Silver salts and numerous natural and artificial dyes that were usually originated from the development dyes for the textile industry.