tetrazolium dye

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• tetrazolium — Any of a group of organic salts having the general structure that on reduction (cleaving the 2,3 bond) yields a colored insoluble formazan; used as a reagent in oxidative enzyme histochemistry. nitroblue t. ( …   Medical dictionary

• Nitro blue tetrazolium chloride — Identifiers CAS number 298 83 9 …   Wikipedia

• nitroblue tetrazolium reduction — Nitroblue tetrazolium, a yellow dye, is taken up by phagocytosing neutrophils and reduced to insoluble formazan, which is deep blue, if the metabolic burst is normal. Reduction does not take place in chronic granulomatous disease …   Dictionary of molecular biology

• nitroblue tetrazolium — ni·tro·blue tet·ra·zo·li·um (niґtro bloo tet″rə zoґle əm) a yellow water soluble dye that on reduction is converted to a dark blue water insoluble formazan; see also under test …   Medical dictionary

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• NTD — • neural tube defect; • nitroblue tetrazolium dye; • noise tone difference; • 5´ nucleotidase …   Dictionary of medical acronyms & abbreviations

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