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*Calcium Flux Measurement Using INDO-1 Protocol *Fluorescein Di-acetate Staining Protocol

Fluorescein Di-acetate Staining

  1. Harvest and spin cells and re-suspend at 10e6/ml.

  2. 10µl FDA working solution and 50uµl propidium iodide.

  3. Incubate for 10 minutes at RT.

  4. Analyse.
Fluorescein Diacetate Stock solution: 1mg/ml in acetone. Fluorescein Diacetate Working solution: 1µg/ml (1ml PBS+1µl stock).FDA is detected in the green fluorescence channel, an alternative dead cell discriminator may be used, e.g. 7 Aminoactinomycin D or TO-PRO-3.


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