Chemical Properties
Blue powder or granule. It is freeze-dried by introducing polycyclic chromophores on dextran T2000 (average relative molecular mass 2000000). Easily soluble in water and dielectric aqueous solution, but slowly dissolve only after boiling. Like other polysaccharides, Lancet dextran solutions are susceptible to biological degradation in storage and should be protected from bacterial growth.
Uses
Blue Dextran has been used as a single-phase fluid dye in the mass flow capability of hollow microneedle (HMN). It has also been used as a standard in gel filtration chromatography.
General Description
D5751-10G′s updated product number is GE17-0360-01
Biochem/physiol Actions
Blue dextran is used in affinity chromatography, gel filtration chromatography, protein chromatography and molecular weight markers. Blue dextran has been used to study Alzheimer′s disease.
