Before placing your costly experimental sample on the instrument, it is important to realize that the scales of the dot plots and histograms that the instrument produces are completely ambiguous. As you recall from our discussion of the PMT detectors, the sensitivity of the instrument can be increased or decreased simply by raising or lowering the voltage applied to the detector. In order to draw any meaningful conclusions from flow data, the plot scales need to first be calibrated. Fluorescence is not limited to antibody conjugation of course. Any source of fluorescence which can be coupled to a functional characteristic is applicable. Intercellular dyes such as Hoechst or Propidium Iodide are used to measure DNA content.
Next, one must consider the instrumentation available to the investigator. A useful chart of common instrument configurations and typical fluorochromes is available here. For your convenience, we have placed a BRDU staining protocol in this folder.
However, by following a careful decision process, it needn’t become a burden. Notice how I have chosen only to show the FL1 data and that the PE Pos gate is selected. I will then convert my region into a gate using the create gate option. Finally, download the data files to be used for this exercise. If you need the files in another format please email David Adams.
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This procedure can also produce good results and should be considered if you experience problems with the fixation technique. When people think of flow cytometry, they are generally thinking of an immunofluorescence technique. The binding of fluorescent molecules to cell membranes via antibody conjugation is the most widely used technique in cytometry today. As you can imagine, there are always stray photons striking the detector (unless the cytometer is kept in an absolutely light-fast environment, of course). This would make the identification of individual cell fluorescence impossible if not for the threshold system.
Furthermore, it is difficult to account for unknown caspases. Some studies also suggest that caspase-independent apoptosis is actually autophagy. If Flow Cytometry ended with light scatter, it would be a useful technique but certainly would not play its important role in research and clinical science. By adding fluorescent labeling, however, the analysis can be taken beyond morphological characteristics into the arena of functional characteristics. These binding sites relate to specific cell functional roles. Therefore, if one took a sample of Anti-CD3 antibodies conjugated with a fluorescent molecule (such as Fitc), one could use the sample to “stain” the T-cells within a sample.
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Such analysis are often coupled with drug treatment studies to see how treatment affects the frequency of cell division. As you can see, hydrodynamic focusing occurs within the flow cell, but inspection of the cell (the laser/stream interface) occurs outside of the flow cell in free space. These flow cells are well-suited to cell sorting applications but suffer due to lower sensitivity compared to closed systems. Continue to adjust the value until there are no more false PE positives (be careful not to overcompensate). The proper compensation level is when the mean PE value of the Fitc-negative population is equal to the Mean PE value of Fitc-Positive population. This can be done by “eyeballing” it (that would be the art) or by creating a stats window and adjusting the compensation value until the mean values for the two quadrants are equal (that would be the science).
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