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DURING the course of experiments designed to investigate the staining of nucleic acid in histological sections, I happened to gather together on one bench a number of solutions of basic dyes reduced to their colourless sulphite leucobase. These included methyl green, basic fuchsin and a series of thiazines, namely, thionin, azure A, B and C, and methylene blue (for a discussion of the structure of these thiazine dyes, see Baker1).
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Baker, J. R., Principles of Biological Micro-Technique, 180, 268 (Methuen and Co., London, 1958).
de Tomasi, J. A., Stain Technol., 11, 137 (1936).
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MENZIES, D. Photo-Sensitivity of Thiazine Leucobases. Nature 191, 505–506 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/191505a0
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