Brilliant Blue G (CBBG) is a member of the Coomassie dye family and is commonly used in analytical biochemistry to stain proteins in SDS-PAGE and BN-PAGE. The "G" in the name Brilliant Blue G refers to a blue dye with a greenish hue. The "R" in the name of Brilliant Blue R…

Sulforhodamine B is a fluorescent dye. Sulforhodamine B can be used as a protein tag - by sulfamido condensation with a proteinaceous substrate containing a primary amine function. Sulforhodamine B will fluoresce red. Because of its red fluorescence it can be used in conjuction with fluorescein…

Fast blue B salt is useful for TLC of Aflatoxins. Fast Blue B is a diazonium salt used as a tissue stain.

Ponceau S is used as protein stain for electrophoresis.

Primuline is a dye containing the benzothiazole ring system. The primulines are considered derivatives of dehydrothiotoluidine (aminobenzenyltoluylmercaptan). It is pale yellow in solution under visible light and is blue fluorescent under ultraviolet. Primulin is used in retrograde double…

Congo red is a secondary diazo dye. It is a High Purity Biological Stain. Congo Red is suitable for staining cytoplasm, erythrocytes and collagen. Useful probe for conformational studies of nucleotide-binding enzymes.

Alcian Blue 8GX is a cationic dye used to quantitatively determine glycosaminoglycans by forming insoluble complexes in solution. Alcian Blue 8GX can be used to determine proteins based on their Resonance Light Scattering by strongly enhancing the signals. It is useful as a bacterial stain, and as…

Fluorescent Brightner 28 is a colorless organic compound that fluoresces (clear bluish) under ultraviolet radiation. It is related structurally to Fluorescent Brightner 9 (Calcofluor White MR) which was used by Jefferies and Belcher and Maeda and Ischida in plant tissue studies. Fluorescent…

Coomassie Blue R-250 is a triphenylmethane dye used extensively in SDS-PAGE for the analysis of proteins. Brilliant Blue R has been used for many years for staining proteins on polyacrylamide electrophoresis gels. Improvement of sensitivity and background have been accomplished using Brilliant…

Ethidium bromide intercalates double-stranded DNA and RNA and acts as a frameshift mutagen. It can also be used in conjunction with acridine orange to differentiate between viable, apoptotic and necrotic cells. Ethidium bromide(EtBr) has been used extensively to reduce mitochondrial DNA copy…

A red, anionic xanthene dye, has been used as a contrast or counter stain to hematoxylin, crystal violet and other nuclear stains, in both plant and animal tissue. Erythrosin B sodium salt is used as a counter stain to hematoxylin, crystal violet and other nuclear stains, in both plant and…

2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol (DCPIP) is a blue chemical compound used as a redox dye. In Oxidized form DCPIP is blue; whereas in reduced form DCPIP is colorless. The rate of photosynthesis can be measured by the rate at which this dye changes color (is reduced) when exposed to light in a…

Bromophenol blue migrates at approximately the same rate as 300-500bp DNA in agarose gel and at the buffer front in protein polyacrylamide gels. Applications Bromophenol blue is a tracking dye for alkaline and neutral buffer systems. It is used as a tracking dye in DNA, RNA (agarose) and…

Hematoxylin is Gill’s Formulation 2; a nuclear counter stain of blue-violet color. It is extracted from the heartwood of the logwood tree. When oxidized it forms haematein, a compound that forms strongly coloured complexes with certain metal ions, the most notable ones being Fe(III) and…

Mycoplasmas are small and simple parasitic prokaryotes that reside in the endosomes of mammalian cells and are widespread contaminants found in cell culture. They alone have been shown to alter the growth rate of cells in culture, induce chromosomal aberrations, influence amino acid and nucleic…

Coomassie® Brilliant Blue G-250 is a useful dye for SDS gels as it readily stains proteins with minimal background color. Protein bands can be visualized during staining. Coomassie Brilliant Blue G-250 is a protein stain in electrophoresis. Brilliant Blue G has been used in the Bradford…

3,3',5,5'-Tetramethylbenzidine is suitable as peroxidase substrate for use in ELISA procedures. The substrate produces a soluble end product that is pale blue in color and can be read spectrophotometrically at 370 or 620-650 nm. The TMB reaction may be stopped with 2 M H2SO4 (resulting in a…

Bromocresol Green is a dye of the triphenylmethane family (triarylmethane dyes). It binds quantitatively with human albumin forming an intense blue-green complex with an absorbance maximum at 628 nm. Bromocresol Green is useful in a variety of colorimetric detection technologies. It is used as a…

Evans Blue is a potent inhibitor of L-glutamate uptake into synaptic vesicles via EAAT. Evans Blue also inhibits AMPA and kainate receptor-mediated currents (IC50 values are 220 and 150 nM respectively). The compound is also a P2X-selective purinoceptor antagonist. Evans Blue used in…

Nile Red is an uncharged, hydrophobic, photostable molecule that strongly fluoresces bright red in hydrophobic environments. It is a fluorescent stain for intracellular lipid droplets. Nile red can be used for the rapid determination of lipids by thin-layer chromatography or for staining whole…

Sudan IV has been used industrially to color oils, waxes, shoe polish, greases, oily-resin lacquers, varnishes, cellulose acetate and acrylic resins, and in wood stains. As a biological stain, it is used primarily to stain lipids and fatty substances present in cells and tissues. The color imparted…

Phenazine ethosulfate is an intermediate which is used to detect nitric oxide reducatase activity in concert with ascorbic acid.

Eosin Y, a red xanthene dye, has been noted to reduce the affinity of Mg2+- ATPase for ATP and increase the enzyme affinity for Mg2+ at concentrations of 10-50 μM. At higher concentrations near 100 μM the affinity for Mg2+- ATPase for the ion-activator has been shown to be reduced. This…

Cresyl violet acetate is a high purity biological stain to used for Nissl staining of spinal cord and brain paraffin sections and to stain mast cell and cartilage granules. Cresyl violet acetate is used for staining neve tissue and nerve cells and fresh turmor tissue for biopsy.

p-Nitro Blue Tetrazolium Chloride is an NADPH-diaphorase substrate that competitively inhibits NOS (nitric oxide synthase) (IC50 = 3-4 μM). In combination with 5-Bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl phosphate (BCIP) and an appropriate reaction buffer, Nitroblue tetrazolium forms a substrate for the…

Brilliant Sulfaflavine is not the same as FIAT (Brilliant Sulfoflavin FF; Acid Yellow 7) which has only one methyl group para to the nitrogen. Brilliant sulfaflavine was used as fluorescent tracers to study the application rate of foliar fungicides when applied to soybeans for the control of rust.

Lucifer Yellow CH is the hydrazine (-NH-CO-NH-NH2) form of the dye compared to Lucifer Yellow VS, which is the vinyl sulfone (-Ph-SO2-CH=CH2) form. It is a highly fluorescent dye useful in marking nerve cells. Lucifer yellow CH has been used to demonstrate electrical coupling between hamster…

Bromocresol purple binds quantitatively with human serum albumin forming a stable complex with absorbance maximum at 600 nm. The intensity of the color produced is directly proportional to the albumin concentration in the sample. Bromocresol Purple is used as a pH indicator (5.2-6.8 : yellow to…

A 10 mg/mL Ready-To-Use solution of EtBr in specially filtered, deionized water. Ethidium bromide (EtBr) is useful for all applications requiring nucleic acid staining including CsCl plasmid DNA isolation and is the most commonly used nucleic acid stain for PAGE or agarose gel electrophoresis.…

TMB is a chromogenic substrate for Horse Radish Peroxidase (HRP). MP Biolomedicals' TMB Solution is a convenient, non toxic and ready to use stable chromogen solution suitable for peroxidase and pseudo-peroxidase reactions in ELISA, it provides consistent performance and sensitivity to deliver…

2,3,5-Triphenyltetrazolium Chloride is a redox indicator. In the TTC assay (also known as TTC test or tetrazolium test), TTC is used to differentiate between metabolically active and inactive tissues. The white compound is enzymatically reduced to red TPF (1,3,5-triphenylformazan) in living tissues…

Acriflavine Hydrochloride is a mixture of 3,6-diamino-10-methylacridinium chloride and 3,6-diaminoacridine (approximately an 9 to 1 mixture respectively). Acriflavine Hydrochloride acts as an intercalating dye and also reported to inhibit mitochondriogenesis. It is an antiseptic and has been…