CHEBI:88282 - thioflavine S

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ChEBI Name thioflavine S
ChEBI ID CHEBI:88282
Definition Thioflavin S is a homogenous mixture of compounds that results from the methylation of dehydrothiotoluidine in the presence of sulfonic acid. It is used to stain amyloid plaques.
Stars This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
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Application(s): fluorochrome
A fluorescent dye used to stain biological specimens.
histological dye
A dye used in microscopic or electron microscopic examination of cells and tissues to give contrast and to highlight particular features of interest, such as nuclei and cytoplasm.
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Outgoing thioflavine S (CHEBI:88282) has role fluorochrome (CHEBI:51217)
thioflavine S (CHEBI:88282) has role histological dye (CHEBI:77178)
thioflavine S (CHEBI:88282) is a mixture (CHEBI:60004)
Synonyms Sources
C.I. 49010 ChEBI
direct yellow 7 ChEBI
Last Modified
20 October 2015