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General Description
• Xylidine Ponceau 2R is largely confined to Masson's trichrome, where it gives a slight orange shading to the red of the cytoplasmic structures
Application
• Xylidine Ponceau 2R is a histological dye used mainly for the staining of thin sections
• It shows cardiotoxic and carcinogenic activities
• It has been used to prepare Fuchsin-Ponceau solution to stain an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis tissue-engineered skin model
Literature References
Paré, B.; Touzel-Deschênes, L.; Lamontagne, R.; Lamarre, M.S.; Scott, F.D.; Khuong, H.T.; Dion, P.A.; Bouchard, J.P.; Gould, P.; Rouleau, G.A.; Dupré, N.; Berthod, F.; Gros-Louis, F. Early detection of structural abnormalities and cytoplasmic accumulation of TDP-43 in tissue-engineered skins derived from ALS patients. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2015, 31, 3:5.
Arroyo, Negrete, M.A.; Wrobel, K.; Yanez, Barrientos, E.; Corrales, Escobosa, A.R.; Acevedo, Aguilar, F.J.; Wrobel, K. Determination of sulfonated azo dyes in chili powders by MALDI-TOF MS. Anal Bioanal Chem. 2019, 411, (22), 5833-5843.