Stockert J C, Del Castillo P, Gómez A, Llorente A R
Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
Z Naturforsch C J Biosci. 1989 Mar-Apr;44(3-4):327-9. doi: 10.1515/znc-1989-3-425.
Treatment of cell smears, paraffin, and Epon tissue sections with aqueous solutions of curcumin results in a green fluorescence reaction in chromatin under violet-blue excitation which is abolished after extraction procedures with DNase and TCA. The selective fluorescence characteristics of curcumin support the possibility of employing this dye as a new fluorochrome.