Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot
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Blog Post
Published
Feb. 6, 2024, 3:13 p.m.
...done using side scatter (SSC) and forward scatter (FSC), which measure light that “scatters” past the cell... the plot that divides it into four, using the location of the cell populations as a guide (Figure 3....be used for this purpose.
Pro tip! The forward scatter is a proxy for diameter and volume of the cell,...the exclusion of doublets and debris. The side scatter roughly measures granularity, a proxy for nucleic... will have numbers by gated populations; this indicates the percentage of total events contained in the... gated population. Heat maps are often used to indicate the relative density of cells. You can see both...presented. A horizontal line across the peak will indicate the cut-off value for a positive signal (Figure...