This protocol is intended to establish a routine staining workflow for the Bennhold Congo red method. It is applicable to the demonstration and morphological observation of amyloid substances in paraffin-embedded tissue sections and can be used for histopathological research, evaluation of ...
Congo red staining is a classical method for identifying amyloid in histopathology and experimental histology. The differences among the Highman, Bennhold, Puchtler, and modified Congo red methods do not lie in their recognition of different types of amyloid protein, but in their staining ...