Differential mucins staining with Alcian Blue/Diastase-Periodic Acid Schiff staining: in order to correlate the mucin content/amount and types with different grading of colonic cancers, we performed Alcian blue (pH 2.5)/Diastase-Periodic Acid Schiff staining. The gene discussed is MUC5AC; the disease is malignant colon neoplasm.