Re: Europium in Flow

From: Howard Shapiro (hms@shapirolab.com)
Date: Thu May 31 2001 - 19:04:35 EST


Laurie Gilmour wrote-

>Is anyone currently looking at Europium on a standard or slightly modified
>flow
>cytometer? An investigator has both a FacsVantage and a FACStar Plus with a UV
>capable laser which he would like to use, but the delay times may be an issue.
>If you have ideas or references about how this can be done, please respond to
>me, and I will pass it on.

The references I remember are:

Condrau MA, Schwendener RA, Niederer P, Anliker M: Time-resolved flow
cytometry for the measurement of lanthanide chelate fluorescence: I.
Concept and theoretical evaluation.  Cytometry 16:187-94, 1994
Condrau MA, Schwendener RA, Zimmermann M, Muser MH, Graf U, Niederer P,
Anliker M: Time-resolved flow cytometry for the measurement of lanthanide
chelate fluorescence:  II. Instrument design and experimental
results.  Cytometry 16:195-205, 1994

They used a modified Ortho instrument with observation in a cuvette,
collecting fluorescence emitted in the interval from 30 microseconds to
about 1.5 milliseconds after the particle passed the excitation
beam.  Doing this trick in a stream in air system doesn't sound easy.

-Howard



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