Acridine orange is a fluorescent dye. The compound binds to genetic material and can differentiate between deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA). A fluorescent dye such as acridine orange absorbs the energy of incoming light. The...

Acridine, C13H9N, is an organic compound and a nitrogen heterocycle. Acridine is also used to describe compounds containing the C13N tricycle. Acridine is structurally related to anthracene with one of the central CH groups is replaced by nitrogen....

ABSTRACT Synovial sarcoma (SS) is one of common malignant soft-tissue tumors and is encountered most commonly in children and young adults. It frequently involves or invades major neurovascular structures and bones, and its local recurrence rate after simple resection has been reported to...

ABSTRACT Dual-color imaging of acridine orange (AO) and EGFP fused to a vesicular glutamate transporter or the vesicle-associated membrane proteins 2 or 3 has been used to visualize a supposedly well-defined subpopulation of glutamatergic astrocytic secretory vesicles undergoing regulated exocytosis. However, AO metachromasy...