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What does acridine mean?

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Noun
  1. (organic chemistry) A tricyclic aromatic heterocycle, dibenzopyridine, obtained from coal tar; it is used in the manufacture of dyes and drugs
  2. (organic chemistry) Any of many derivatives of this compound
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He went on to demonstrate that this effect was greater than that of either acridine alone, light alone or acridine exposed to light and then added to the paramecium.
The stains acridine orange, ethidium bromide, azur II, eosin B, trypan blue, Giemsa solution and nitroblue tetrazolium were purchased from Sigma.
This effect of cholesterol was not observed in the results obtained here with acridine orange.
Proton uptake into the inside-out vesicles was monitored as the decrease in the intensity of the acridine orange at 495 nm.
Certain acridine dyes are used as antiseptics, as are some aromatic, or essential, oils.
Blood was smeared on an acridine orange-coated slide, covered with a cover slip, and analyzed according to Hayashi et al.

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