Methyl green is a substitute for distamycin A in the formation of distamycin A/DAPI C-bands
- 1 December 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Human Genetics
- Vol. 65 (2) , 144-146
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00286651
Abstract
The DA/DAPI technique has been found to be useful in the identification of specific chromosomal regions on human chromosomes. The realization that distamycin A (DA) is no longer commercially available has necessitated the development of an alternative technique. We describe a technique, MG/DAPI, which substitutes the AT-specific dye methyl green for distamycin A and gives results identical to those of the DA/DAPI technique.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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