This image from the
developing skull of a rodent was stained with Mallory's triple stain. The
collagen fibers of the connective tissue are stained blue with aniline blue;
the erythrocytes are stained yellow-orange by
orange
G; and the cell
nuclei and nucleoli are stained magenta
with acid
fuchsin. The large oval-shaped structure is a hair,
which stains with both orange G and acid fuchsin, giving it a red-orange color.
