Antibodies 101: Introduction to Gating in Flow Cytometry
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...understand the principles of gating, you’ll first need to learn a little bit of theoretical background ...software will allow you to adjust this setting as needed. To figure out the appropriate voltages to observe... through maximum current (H), the time the cell needed to pass through the laser (W) and the area under... current and thereby the signal strength. So, we need to adjust the voltage in the cytometer’s software...interest). Let’s double-click inside our gate and proceed to the next plot!
Pro tip! If you only get very...gated on your cells of interest, you will likely need to exclude all duplicate events (two cells stuck...analyzed on their staining signals. For this, you’ll need to gate based on the proportion between H and A ...