Fura-2
"Fura-2" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A fluorescent calcium chelating agent which is used to study intracellular calcium in many tissues. The fluorescent and chelating properties of Fura-2 aid in the quantitation of endothelial cell injury, in monitoring ATP-dependent calcium uptake by membrane vesicles, and in the determination of the relationship between cytoplasmic free calcium and oxidase activation in rat neutrophils.
| Descriptor ID |
D016257
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.129.462.285 D03.438.127.250
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1990 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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