Alcian blue can be used to quantitate acidic glycans both in microspectrophotometric quantitation in solution or for staining glycoproteins in polyacrylamide gels or on western blots. (wikipedia.org)
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Many of the alternate sources sold similar looking color products with unreliable staining. (wikipedia.org)
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Use of alcian blue has historically been a popular staining method in histology especially for light microscopy in paraffin embedded sections and in semithin resin sections. (wikipedia.org)
Alcian blue staining can be combined with H&E staining, PAS staining and van Gieson staining methods. (wikipedia.org)
In addition to its wide use as a stain Alcian blue has also been used in other diverse applications e.g. gelling agent for lubricating fluids, modifiers for electrodes, charged coating agents etc. (wikipedia.org)
The mast cell granules stain basophilic with Giemsa's stain and metachromatically with azure A or toluidine blue. (rupress.org)