er the proprietary name "amyloid red" (direct red 72), may also be successful. I would remind you that any staining method for amyloid may be unsuccessful, and that applies to congo red and the other direct cotton dyes as well.
|Toluidine blue birefringence|
|Crystal violet metachromasia|
|Congo red and sirius red F3B|
|Thioflavine T and S|
|DMAB-Nitrite for tryptophan|
Amyloid and Amyloidosis
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The charts were blended and reproduced under the Creative Commons licence.
Structure of amyloid
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Last updated January 2019