Evaluation of acridine orange, LysoTracker Red, and quinacrine as fluorescent probes for long-term tracking of acidic vesicles

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 729-737

  Pierzyńska Mach, Agnieszka ^a   Janowski, Pawel A ^a   Dobrucki, Jurek W ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Acidic organelles; Acridine orange; Apoptosis; Endocytosis; Lysosomes; LysoTracker Red; Quinacrine; Vesicular transport

Indexed keywords

ACID; ACRIDINE ORANGE; AMINE; CAMPTOTHECIN; FLUORESCENT DYE; MEPACRINE; RED DND-99;

APOPTOSIS; CELL LINE; CELL TRACKING; CYTOPLASM VESICLE; DRUG EFFECTS; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ACIDS; ACRIDINE ORANGE; AMINES; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CAMPTOTHECIN; CELL LINE; CELL TRACKING; CYTOPLASMIC VESICLES; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; QUINACRINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84904664172     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: 15524930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.22495     Document Type: Article

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