Antibodies 101: Conventional vs Spectral Flow Cytometry
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Blog Post
Published
Aug. 3, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
...fluorophore from another within a fully stained sample.
Figure 2 is an example of the emission spectra for ...another during spectral unmixing.
Figure 2: The full emission spectra for BV421 and BV711 on ...stained samples.
If you are using conjugated dyes, it is critical that your controls and your sample antibodies...unmixing if your sample is stained with a PE/Cy7 antibody from a batch that is not the same as your single...allows the user to use the autofluorescence in a sample as a fluorescent marker. Given that the level of... varies, it is critical to include an unstained sample for each tissue type you are running in your panel...control(s)
Compensation or “reference” controls are samples stained with a single fluorophore. They’re required...