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  • noun organic chemistry The cationic form of a polycyclic aromatic base, name 3,8-Diamino-5-ethyl-6-phenylphenanthridinium, whose bromide is used as a stain for nucleic acids

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  • For many years, the method of choice for supercoiled plasmid and virus DNA purification was cesium chloride density gradient centrifugation in the presence of an intercalation agent (such as ethidium bromide or propidium iodide).

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

  • If the occasion is pouring an ethidium bromide gel, then a "pants-suit" (blech) is not practical.

    Female Academics Should Emulate Old Farts? Peggy 2008

  • Today I had to find the ethidium bromide, nevermind where to dispose of anything that had touched it.

    Hitting a moving target 2005

  • Today I had to find the ethidium bromide, nevermind where to dispose of anything that had touched it.

    Archive 2005-07-01 2005

  • There was no sign by ethidium bromide of any 400-bp bands.

    Kary B. Mullis - Nobel Lecture 1997

  • A final amplification product of about 347 bp was then analyzed by electrophoresis through a 1. 0% agarose gel and visualized by ethidium bromide staining.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hongxia Ma et al. 2010

  • Digestion products were visualized by ethidium bromide staining following electrophoresis on a 4% agarose gel.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Donna N. Douglas et al. 2010

  • For membrane integrity, ethidium homodimer-1 (EthD-1; 4.5 µM final concentration) was added at the indicated time points and allowed to incubate for 30 min at room temp.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Justin L. Spinner et al. 2010

  • Generation of amplicons of the expected molecular sizes was verified by gel electrophoresis and ethidium bromide staining as per usual methods

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Neelkamal Chaudhary et al. 2010

  • PCR products were visualised following electrophoresis on a 1. 5% agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide (0.5 µg/ml).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ceiridwen J. Edwards et al. 2010

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