text: Methenamine silver stains are used for staining in histology, including the following types:
  *Grocott's methenamine silver stain, used widely as a screen for fungal organisms.
  *Jones' stain, a methenamine silver-Periodic acid-Schiff that stains for basement membrane, availing to view the "spiked" Glomerular basement membrane associated with membranous glomerulonephritis.