A second look into my files resulted in finding the following (thanks to these old classical histochemists!) contained in
BANCROFT JD& GAMBLE M(Eds), 2008/2011:
Theory and Practice of Histological Techniques (Churchill-Livingstone/Elsevier)
MILLON reaction for tyrosine (BAKER 1956)
.....a histochemical approach for NBF-(FA-vapour for Freeze Dried tissue) fixed tissues, to be used on Paraffin, fixed cryostat sections, freeze dried, or celloidin (embedded) sections: in brief: Solution A: mercuric sulfate in hydrous solution acidified with sulfuric acid solution B: hydrous solution of sodium nitrite, A&B are mixed together (5 soln b, to 50 ml soln a), rel. short staining procedure (some 6-8 (with cooling perhaps 15 mins). Results: Tyrosine-containing proteins: red or pink
Suitable control tissue: pancreas
Cave: hazardous waste solutions (mercury); Cave: dilution of concentrated H2SO4 in water.
The second method given:
Diazotization-coupling method for tyrosine (GLENNER & LILLIE, 1959) , employing 8-amino-1-naphthol-5-sulfonic acid as a coupling amine for the diazonium nitrites produced by nitrozation of tyrosine. Prerequisiete: Incubatuion stages / reactions / staining: in the dark and at low temperature. As said, this method gives better and stronger rsults than the MILLON method.
! Staining procedure TAT !: approx. 26 h (total, including one incubation @ 4°C for 24h).
Hope this is perhaps better stuff than mentioned above in my first reply.... For today I am unfortunately unable to provide a methods-containing document (scan) for you.
Results: Tyrosine containing proteins: purple and red.