Mara, I have been very happy with VWR's blood bank saline for my FACSCalibur. Randy Fischer TherImmune Research Corporation 9700 Great Seneca Hwy Rockville, MD 20850 (240) 453-6256 RFischer@therimmune.com > ---------- > From: Mara Rocchi > Reply To: roccm@blackie.mri.sari.ac.uk > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 4:36 AM > To: Cytometry Mailing List > Subject: sheath fluid for Calibur > > > Dear Flowers, > we are in the process to buy a FACSCalibur, and we would like to here > your > suggestion abut the kind of sheath fluid we must/can use. We aren't > planning > any sorting, maybe some DNA work, lot and lot of phenotyping and > intracellular staining. > From the archives looks like that different people use different > solutions, > and for different reasons. I have been using sterile saline for > FACScan and > FACStar, and D'PBS for FACSort, but being new to the Calibur world, I > would > like to be sure that those alternatives to the BD sheath fluid are OK. > > Thanks a million in advance > Mara > > Mara S.L. Rocchi > Moredun Research Institute > Penicuik EH26 0PZ > Scotland, UK > e-mail: roccm@mf.mri.sari.ac.uk > >
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