hydroxystilbamidine
Sign in to savethumb|PVH neurons of Long-Evans rat marked with fluoro-gold
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- chemical compound
- Mass
- 280.13241113199996
Show 3 more facts
- canonical SMILES
- C1=CC(=CC=C1C=CC2=C(C=C(C=C2)C(=N)N)O)C(=N)N
- chemical formula
- C₁₆H₁₆N₄O
- Commons category
- Hydroxystilbamidines
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
1 sectionsContents
- References
thumb|PVH neurons of Long-Evans rat marked with fluoro-gold
Hydroxystilbamidine is a fluorescent dye that emits different frequencies of light when bound to DNA and RNA. It is used as a retrograde tracer for outlining neurons, and as a histochemical stain.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hydroxystilbamidine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.