Bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU)

BrdU next to the deoxynucleoside deoxythymidine (dT) it can replace during DNA synthesis

Bromodeoxyuridine (5-bromo-2-deoxyuridine, BrdU) is a synthetic nucleoside analogue of thymidine. BrdU is commonly used to detect cell proliferation.

Examples

• User:Mar/Notebook/2007-9-20 BrdU application in E16 mouse embryos

See also

• BrdU, dU, dT at the Wikipedia