Q-banding is a fluorescent pattern obtained using quinacrine for staining.
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This would mean the effect of quinacrine could not be objectively assessed.
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Quinacrine drastically improved the condition of a UK sufferer in 2001.
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Quinacrine binds to the adenine-thymine-rich regions.
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Some doctors fear that quinacrine could cause cancer.
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The alarm was sounded by experiments showing that quinacrine can cause mutations in cultured cells.
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But others think quinacrine is unreliable.
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He says that patients given quinacrine develop yellow skin, vomit and have dangerously high levels of toxic liver enzymes.
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Rowley, J.D. A new consistent abnormality in chronic myelogenous leukaemia identified by quinacrine, fluorescence and Giemsa staining.
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A drug (trade name Atabrine) used to treat certain worm infestations and once used to treat malaria
Quinacrine (trade name Atabrine) is a drug with a number of different medical applications. It is related to mefloquine.
A drug with various applications, including as an antimalarial, having the chemical formula C23H30ClN3O
(Atabrine): oral medication rarely used to treat malaria (Plasmodium) in avian species; given orally via feeding tube; concentrates in liver, caution with liver impairment; may cause jaundice and seizures;