title: Fluorescence reaction of chromatin by curcumin.
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.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Stockert
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Del Castillo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gómez
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Llorente
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens; D002843:Chromatin / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D003474:Curcumin; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000166:cytology*; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence / Q000379:methods; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence; D013154:Spleen / Q000166:cytology; D014349:Trypanosoma cruzi / Q000166:cytology
chemical_list: D002843:Chromatin; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D003474:Curcumin