Cuprolinic Blue: A specific dye for single-stranded RNA in the presence of magnesium chloride. II. Practical applications for light microscopy
- 1 November 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Molecular Histology
- Vol. 15 (11) , 1113-1121
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01003974
Abstract
The application of the new nucleic acid dye Cuprolinic Blue to cell smears and tissue sections has been described. Without added cations, Cuprolinic Blue stains both DNA and RNA, whereas in the presence of 1m MgCl2, Cuprolinic Blue specifically staing single-stranded RNA only. The total RNA can be stained after removal of DNA by DNAase digestion. Fixation in a modified Carnoy solution gave optimal staining results in all cases tested. By cytophotometry, a reliable and reproducible relative estimate can be obtained of the total nucleic acid content, the total RNA content and the amount of single-stranded RNA alone per cell.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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