Quantitative Comparison of Long-wavelength Alexa Fluor Dyes to Cy Dyes: Fluorescence of the Dyes and Their Bioconjugates

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1699-1712

  Berlier, Judith E ^a   Rothe, Anca ^a   Buller, Gayle ^a   Bradford, Jolene ^a   Gray, Diane R ^a   Filanoski, Brian J ^a   Telford, William G ^b   Yue, Stephen ^a   Liu, Jixiang ^a   Cheung, Ching Ying ^a   Chang, Wesley ^a   Hirsch, James D ^a   Beechem, Joseph M ^a   Haugland, Rosaria P ^a   Haugland, Richard P ^a  

^a MOLECULAR PROBES INC   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alexa Fluor dyes; Cy dyes; Flow cytometry; Fluorescent Bioconjugates; FRET; Immunofluorescence; Long wavelength dyes; Microscopy; Photostability

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CELL LABELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONJUGATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ALEXA;

EID: 0345725012     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002215540305101214     Document Type: Article

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