Pharmacologic Substance
ethidium
Subclass of:
Phenanthridines
Definitions related to ethidium:
  • A trypanocidal agent and possible antiviral agent that is widely used in experimental cell biology and biochemistry. Ethidium has several experimentally useful properties including binding to nucleic acids, noncompetitive inhibition of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, and fluorescence among others. It is most commonly used as the bromide.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • Bromide is a fluorescent DNA-intercalating dye used as a chromatin stain, mutagen, and mutagenesis resistance marker; bromide and chloride are also used as trypanosomicides.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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