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Application

Patent blue V sodium salt has been used as a stain in pharmacology.

Patent Blue V sodium salt has been used as a stain in pharmacology.It is a biological stain used for the demonstration of hemoglobin. Its applications are also seen in the field of biology and medicine where it′s used as a physiological tracer, to study the movement of fluid within the kidney. Patent Blue V is useful as a marker dye in oncological surgeries for accurate and complete excision of lymph nodes. It is also used as a food color.

General description

Patent Blue V sodium salt, also called as Sulfan Blue. is a disulfonated diaminotriphenylmethane dye with a hydrophilic anion and an aromatic system. It is orange under acid conditions and blue in alkali.