Lissamine Fast Yellow

Property Data
Common name
Suggested name
Other names
C.I. number
C.I. name
Class
Ionisation
Solubility aqueous
Solubility ethanol
Absorption maximum
Colour
Empirical formula
Formula weight
 Lissamine fast yellow
Lissamine fast yellow
–
18965
–
Azo
Acid
Readily
Poor
396 (Gurr)
Yellow
C16H10N4O7S2Cl2Na2
551

Lissamine fast yellow is rarely called for in medical histology. It is recommended as the erythrocyte stain in Garvey's method for elastic, fibrin and collagen. It has also been recommended as a substitute for martius yellow in Lendrum’s MSB.

 

Reference
Edward Gurr, (1971)
Synthetic dyes in biology, medicine and chemistry
Academic Press, London, England.

 


 
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