FW: FL1-FL3 compensation.

From: Gerstein, Rachel (Rachel.Gerstein@umassmed.edu)
Date: Fri May 24 2002 - 13:43:05 EST


> You can use FlowJo (www.flowjo.com/) for software compensation to deal
> with this problem.   For all of you using bright GFP, you will also notice
> GFP signal in FL3 (in std. FACScan configuration) if you dont compensate.
>
> Good luck,
> Rachel
>
> =======================================================
> Rachel M. Gerstein, Ph.D.
> Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
> Graduate Program in Immunology/Virology
> University of Massachusetts Medical School
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> Worcester, MA 01655-0002
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> From:		Dr. Ashraf Abdelhafez
> Sent:		Tuesday, May 21, 2002 10:20 AM
> To:	Cytometry Mailing List
> Subject:	FL1-FL3 compensation.
>
>
> I have been doing 3 color analysis and am using a FITC staining antibody
> that is
> staining very strongly and emmiting very strongly (up to the 4th log) in
> FL1. When I
> have a FL1 vs FL3 plot, as the FL1 positivity goes higher down the X
> access the dots
> curve upward in FL-3 reaching at the highest end of FL1 staining up to the
> 2nd log in
> FL3. Is there a way to appropriately compensate FL3-FL1 since this is
> unavailable on
> the standard FACScan software so that I do not see this and can accurately
> evaluate
> the molecule actually stained for in FL3.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Ashraf Abdelhafez, M.B.B.S.
> University of Würzburg Dermatology
>
>
>



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