Rhodamine LCA For Staining Chick Embryo Vasculature

The Lens Culinaris Agglutinin is the one of the few lectins, which efficiently bind to the vascular endothelium of the chick embryo. Immunofluorescent staining of chick embryo vasculature is important in developmental biology research and in cancer related studies involving the use of human tumor cells or tumor cells of any other species since chick embryo is a naturally immunodeficient host. The Rhodamine Lens Culinaris Agglutinin is especially helpful to illuminate chick embryo vasculature when tumor cells are tagged with a "green" immunofluorescent protein (e.g., GFP).