bromodeoxyuridine


bro·mo·de·ox·y·ur·i·dine (BrDu),

(brō'mō-dē-ok'sē-yūr'i-dēn), A compound that competes with uridine for incorporation in RNA and fluoresces in ultraviolet light; used in BrDu-banding.

bromodeoxyuridine

A thymidine analogue which induces point mutations by tautomerisation. It is incorporated into DNA during the S-phase of the cell cycle, and used to study DNA replication, DNA synthesis by flow cytometry, and cell cycle and tumour kinetics.