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Cyanine
Cyanine is a non-systematic name of a synthetic dye family belonging to polymethine group. Cyanines have many uses as fluorescent dyes, particularly in biomedical imaging...
dye
Dye
A dye is a colored substance that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is being applied. The dye is generally applied in an aqueous solution, and requires a mordant to improve the fastness of the dye on the fiber....
used for scientific purposes, such as single molecule imaging, Fate mapping
Fate mapping
Introduction=Fate mapping is a method of understanding the embryonic origin of various tissues in the adult organism by establishing the correspondence between individual cells or groups of cells at one stage of development and their progeny at later stages of development...
, and neuronal tracing (as it is retained in the lipid bilayers). Its chemical name is 1,1'-dioctadecyl-3,3,3'3'-tetramethylindocarbocyanine perchlorate, the chemical formula
Chemical formula
A chemical formula or molecular formula is a way of expressing information about the atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound....
is C59H89ClN2O4