Stains & Dyes
MP Biomedicals
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2,3,5-Triphenyl Tetrazolium Chloride
MP Biomedicals2,3,5-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…
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Fast Blue B Salt
MP BiomedicalsFast blue B salt is useful for TLC of Aflatoxins. Fast Blue B is a diazonium salt used as a tissue stain.
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Cresyl Violet Acetate
MP BiomedicalsCresyl 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.
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2,3,5-Triphenyltetrazolium Chloride
MP Biomedicals2,3,5-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…
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Ethidium Bromide Solution
MP BiomedicalsEthidium 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…
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Nile Red
MP BiomedicalsNile 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…
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Azomethine H Monosodium Salt Monohydrate
MP BiomedicalsAzomethine H is a reagent for the determination of boron in soil, plants, composts, manure, water and nutrient solutions.
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2,6-Dichloroindophenol Sodium Salt
MP Biomedicals2,6-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…
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Acriflavine Hydrochloride
MP BiomedicalsAcriflavine 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…
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Sudan IV
MP BiomedicalsSudan 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…
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Toluidine Blue O
MP BiomedicalsToluidine Blue O is a metachromatic dye suitable for a wide variety of histological staining procedures.
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Hematoxylin Hydrate
MP BiomedicalsHematoxylin 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…
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Erythrosin B Sodium Salt
MP BiomedicalsA 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…
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Alcian Blue 8GX
MP BiomedicalsAlcian 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…
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Lucifer Yellow CH Dilithium Salt
MP BiomedicalsLucifer 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…
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Safranine O
MP BiomedicalsSafranine O is a biological stain used in histology, cytology, bacteriology. It is a redox and adsorption indicator.
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Cobalt Chloride Hexahydrate
MP BiomedicalsCobalt 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…
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Fluorescent Brightener 28
MP BiomedicalsFluorescent 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…
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Calcein
MP BiomedicalsCalcein is used as an indicator for the determination of calcium by titration with EDTA. Suitable for fluorometric determination of calcium. Calcein does not fluoresce in strong alkaline solution, but an intense fluorescence appears in the presence of alkaline earths, especially calcium. The…
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Congo Red
MP BiomedicalsCongo 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.
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Calcein
MP BiomedicalsCalcein is an indicator for the determination of calcium by titration with EDTA. The excitation wavelength and emission wavelength are 495/515 nm. It is suitable for fluorometric determination of calcium. It does not fluoresce in strong alkaline solution, but an intense fluorescence appears in the…
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Evans Blue
MP BiomedicalsEvans 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…
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Indocyanine Green
MP BiomedicalsIndocyanine 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…
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3,3',5,5'-Tetramethylbenzidine Liquid Substrate
MP BiomedicalsTMB 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…
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8-Anilino-1-naphthalene sulfonic acid
MP Biomedicals8-Anilino-1-naphthalene Sulfonic Acid is a hydrophobic polarity sensitive fluorescent dye useful as a site probe to detect conformational changes in cell and micelle membranes and molecules such as proteins. ANSA is also used as a fluorescent probe for the estimation of the critical micelle…
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Mycoplasma Stain Kit
MP BiomedicalsMycoplasmas 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…
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Fluorescamine
MP BiomedicalsFluorescamine 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…
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Coomassie Brilliant Blue R-250
MP BiomedicalsCoomassie 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…
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BROMOCRESOL GREEN, 5 g
MP BiomedicalsBromocresol 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…
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Sulforhodamine B
MP BiomedicalsSulforhodamine 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…
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Bromophenol Blue, ACS
MP BiomedicalsBromophenol 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…
