Fluorescence Reaction of Chromatin by Curcumin
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- 1 April 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH in Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C
- Vol. 44 (3-4) , 327-329
- https://doi.org/10.1515/znc-1989-3-425
Abstract
Treatment of cell smears, paraffin, and Epon tissue sections with aqueous solutions of curcumin results in a green fluorescence reaction in chromatin under violet-blue excitation which is abolished after extraction procedures with DNase and tCA. The selective fluorescence characteristics of curcumin support the possibility of employing this dye as a new fluorochrome.Keywords
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