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…

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…

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…

Safranine O is a biological stain used in histology, cytology, bacteriology. It is a redox and adsorption indicator.

Fluorescamine is a non-fluorescent reagent that reacts readily with primary amino groups in amino acids and peptides to form highly fluorescent derivatives, whereas the reagent and its degradation products are non-fluorescent. No significant fluorescence with ammonia. Low background due to…

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…

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

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…

Ponceau S is used as protein stain for electrophoresis.

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

Propidium iodide reagent is used for the fluorescent staining of nucleic acids. Propidium iodide (PI) binds to DNA by intercalating between the bases with little or no sequence preference and with a stoichiometry of one dye per 4-5 base pairs of DNA. PI also binds to RNA, necessitating treatment…

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…

Rose Bengal is a fluorescent probe for determining NAD binding sites of alcohol dehydrogenase. Used in Conn′s technique for bacteria in soil; as an alternative to phloxine B in Kreyberg′s stain for keratin and mucus.

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…

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…

Indocyanine green (ICG) is a cyanine dye used in medical diagnostics. It is used for determining cardiac output, hepatic function, and liver blood flow, and for ophthalmic angiography. ICG binds tightly to plasma proteins and becomes confined to the vascular system. Indocyanine Green is a…

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…

Cobalt chloride is utilized in commercial applications such as electroplating, catalyst preparation, painting on glass and porcelain, and in the manufacture of vitamin B12. It is also used as a humidity and water indicator; when cobalt chloride is used with desiccants, it will change from blue to…

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…

Brilliant green, also called emerald green, or malachite green G, a triphenylmethane dye of the malachite-green series, used in dilute solution as a topical antiseptic. Brilliant green is effective against gram-positive microorganisms. It has also been used to dye silk and wool. It occurs as small,…

Acid Green 5 is useful as a general plasma stain, as a histological stain, and a cytological counterstain. Can be use as a cytological counterstain and as a substitute for aniline blue in Gomori′s one-step trichrome procedure.

Coomassie® Brilliant Blue R-250 is a fast acting, sensitive dye. Brilliant Blue R can be used for staining proteins on polyacrylamide electrophoresis gels. Improvement of sensitivity and background have been accomplished using Brilliant Blue dyes in a colloidal form. Other applications for…

p-Iodonitrotetazolium Violet is used as a electron acceptor for the colorimetric assay of various dehydrogenases.

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…

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…

Brilliant Cresyl Blue is a supravital stain used in hematology for demonstrating and counting reticulocytes and platelets. It is also used as a vital stain for demonstrating the mucous secretions of the marine coelomates.

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…

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.