Dear Jan, They may mean sodium borohydride (Aldrich #21,346-2), a mild reducing agent used for decolorizing fluorophores/dyes. It reduces many aromatic dyes to colorless and non-fluorescent (leuco) derivatives. I hope this helps. Best regards, Michael Kuhn, President Helix Research Fluorescence Chemistry mkuhn@helixresearch.com www.helixresearch.com Phone: 541 988 0464 FAX: 541 744 9179 ----- Original Message ----- From: <Jan_F_Keij@sbphrd.com> To: cyto-inbox Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 6:15 AM Subject: boron hydride > > Folks, > > I am looking for a paper (in Cytometry?) where boron hydride was used to > quench autofluorescence in a BrdU application. PubMed and OVID yield only > 20 hits for boron hydride so the mentioning of it must be hidden in the > text. Anyone remember that paper? > > Thanks, > > Jan. >
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