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   proflavine
   <chemical> 3,6-diaminoacridine. Topical antiseptic used mainly in wound dressings. ... Pharmacological action: anti-infective agents, local. ... Chemical name: 3,6-Acridinediamine ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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   Proflavine
   Proflavine is also known to have a mutagenic effect on DNA by intercalating between nucleic acid base pairs. It differs from most other mutagenic components by causing basepair-deletions or basepair-insertions and not substitutions. Proflavine absorbs strongly in the blue region at 445 nm (in water...
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   Proflavine
   Proflavine sulphate is a synthetic acridine dye of red-brown crystals, soluble in water, used as a powerful and effective antiseptic during the Second World War to treat battle casulties and later in hospitals, but is much less used now as a result of the pharmaceutical companies pushing for the use...
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