Easy to Use Fixable Viability Dye

Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel
Experimental Hematology
Graduate Student

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Company:

ThermoFisher Scientific

Product Name:

eBioscience™ Fixable Viability Dye eFluor™ 506

Catalog Number:

65086614

Info: Supplier Page 

1 million PBMC-derived T-cells were resuspended in PBS and stained with 1 µl of this dye at RT for 10-15 minutes. Cells were washed with FACS buffer and stained with surface markers in FACS buffer at 2-8 degrees.

Experimental Design and Results Summary

Application

Flow cytometry

Starting Material

PBMC-derived primary human T-cells

Tips

Avoid photobleaching, protect from light.

Results Summary

1 million cells were resuspended in PBS and stained with 1 µl of this dye at RT for 10-15 minutes. I have also tried 5 minutes incubation at RT and it works equally good.

DOI or PMID #

N/A

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Summary

The Good

Easy to stain, fixable viability dye with the fluorophore option that can easily be used in multicolor flow cytometry for staining intracellular markers.

The Bad

None.

The Bottom Line

Recommended fixable viability dye for intracellular staining.

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