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ninhydrin(medicine)
ninhydrin(dictionary)
ninhydrin reaction(medicine)
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ninhydrin-Schiff stain (medicine)


ninhydrin-Schiff stain
<technique> For proteins, proteins are revealed by using ninhydrin or alloxan to produce aldehydes from primary aliphatic amines by oxidative deamination; the aldehydes are shown by reaction with Schiff's reagent.