| dyes | Coloured chemical substances that impart more or less permanent colour to other materials. They are used for staining and colouring, as test reagents, and as therapeutic agents in medicine. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| oxazin dyes | Similar to azin dye's except that one of the connecting N atoms is replaced by O; most important representatives are brilliant cresyl blue, orcein, litmus, and cresyl violet. (05 Mar 2000) |
| thiazin dyes | Similar to azin dye's except that one of the connecting N atoms is replaced by S; includes many important biological stains, especially in haematology, e.g., azure A, azure B, and methylene blue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| triphenylmethane dyes | A group of dye's that includes pararosanilin, as well as many others used in histology and cytology; employed as nuclear, cytoplasmic, and connective tissue stains; important in histochemistry as in the preparation of Schiff's reagent. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ketonimine dyes | Dye's in which the chromophore is ==C==NH connected to two benzene rings; alkylamino groups are added para to the methane carbon on both rings. The most important member for biological purposes is auramine O; an alternative formulation is as a diphenylmethane dye. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fluorescent dyes | Dyes that emit light when exposed to light. The wave length of the emitted light is usually longer than that of the incident light. Fluorochromes are substances that cause fluorescence in other substances, i.e., dyes used to mark or label other compounds with fluorescent tags. They are used as markers in biochemistry and immunology. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lissamine green dyes | Green dyes containing ammonium and aryl sulfonate moieties that facilitate the visualization of tissues, if given intravenously. They have mostly been used in the study of kidney physiology. (12 Dec 1998) |