A mitochondrion-specific dye for multicolour fluorescent imaging of Trypanosoma brucei

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 381-385

  Vassella, Erik ^a   Straesser, Katja ^a   Boshart, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Fluorescent dye; Immunofluorescence; Membrane potential; Mitotracker(TM) green FM; Trypanosoma brucei

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; IMAGING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STAINING; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0031468481     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(97)00171-0     Document Type: Article

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