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Certified by the Biological Stain Commission All Dyes/Stains are for research use only. Not meant for drug, food household use.

Dye is resistant to fading. Mammalian tissue stain for visualising collagen, muscle, cystoplasma, cells. Guard method for sex chromatin. (Food Green 3)

The main advantage of this dye is its resistance to fading. Mammalian tissue stain for visualising collagen, muscle, cystoplasma, cells and cornified epithelium. Kornhauser, Stain Tech., 18,95 (1943); 20, 23 (1945); Lillie, Arch. Path., 29, 705 (1940). Modified Feulgen stain for visualising chromosomes in root tips and other meristematic tissue. DeTomasi, Stain Tech., 11, 137 (1936). Used in plant histology. O. Conn, "Biological Stains" 9th ed., Williams & Wilkens Co., Baltimore, 1977, pp. 252-3; Haynes, Stain Tech., 3, 40 (1928).

C₃₇H₃₄O₁₀N₂S₃Na₂

F.W.808.86

CAS #2353-45-9

Solubility: 4.0% Water; 9.0% Alcohol; 8.0% Cellosolve; 6.25% Glycol; 0.0% Xylene

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