Good Proliferation Assay

Harvard Medical School
Medicine
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Company:

ebioscience

Product Name:

BrdU Staining Kit for Flow Cytometry FITC

Catalog Number:

8811-6600-42

I study immune response in asthma and use cell proliferation assays quite often. I use this anti-BrdU staining kit to study proliferation of immune cells in response of various stimuli and it always gives me satisfactory results.

Experimental Design and Results Summary

Application

Cell proliferation assay

Starting Material

Cells

Protocol Overview

Cells were cultured in the presence of stimuli and BrdU for 72 hrs at 37 degrees, cells were harvested and stained for surface markers then fixed using 1X BrdU staining buffer for 30 minutes, followed by DNase I treat for 37 degrees for 1 hour. After washing, cells were stained with anti-BrdU FITC conjugated antibody and analyzed thru FACS after washing twice.

Tips

Fix/Perm cell no more than 30 minutes at room temperature

Results Summary

Kit generates neat data for cell proliferation and detects cells in actively dividing state.

Additional Notes

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Summary

The Good

Kit gives reproducible results

The Bad

Staining protocol is lengthy as compared to other proliferation assays

The Bottom Line

Can be used both in vitro and in vivo to study cell proliferation

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