We used normal saline (.9% - same stuff they plugged all the hospital
patients into) happily for many years before switching to PBS
(Phosphate Buffered Saline) for our sheath fluid.
As for concentration of NaCl for electrical conductivity for sorting - not
to worry. Water with 1/50th of the concentration of normal saline will
happily conduct your drop charges.
Richard Stovel stovel@darwin.stanford.edu
Herzenberg Laboratory and Stanford Shared FACS Facility
Stanford University, Stanford CA
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