Acridine Orange Base Acridine Orange NO Basic Orange 14 Euchrysine Rhoduline Orange Rhoduline Orange N Rhoduline Orange NO Solvent Orange 15 Acridine orange is an organic compound. It is used as a nucleic acid-selective fluorescent cationic dye useful for cell cycle determination. Being cell-permeable, it interacts with DNA and RNA by intercalatio...
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<chemical, molecular biology> 3, 6-bis(dimethylamino)acridinium chloride. ... A toxic, fluorescing dye that stains DNA and RNA and is typically used to identify cancerous tumour cells. When it binds to double-stranded DNA, it fluoresces green, when it binds with the phosphate groups of single-stranded DNA or RNA, it fluoresces orange. ... The...
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A fluorescent vital dye, that intercalates into nucleic acids. The nuclei of stained cells fluoresce green; cytoplasmic RNA fluoresces orange. Acridine orange also stains acid mucopolysaccharides, and is widely used as a pH-sensitive dye in studies of acid secretion. May be carcinogenic.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: ak′ri-dēn ōr′enj Definitions: 1. a basic fluorescent dye useful as a metachromatic stain for nucleic acids; also used in screening cervical smears for abnormal and malignant cells, where unusual amounts of DNA and RNA occur during proliferation and in tumors (DNA fluoresces yellow to green; RNA fluore...
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