in 47 healthy blood donors ( controls ) and 29 renal allograft recipients ( patients ) the relative contents of rna and dna of peripheral blood mononuclear ( pbm ) cell populations were estimated from the intensities of green and red fluorescences emitted by complexes that form with dna and rna , respectively , after staining the cells with the metachromatic dye , acridine orange .
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