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bromodeoxyuridine

bromodeoxyuridine

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Noun

bromodeoxyuridine (uncountable) (Abbreviated as: BrdU)

  1. (organic chemistry) A synthetic nucleoside which is an analogue of thymidine; it is commonly used in the detection of proliferating cells in living tissues, where it competes with uridine