Live / Dead assay mammalian cells - K562

An alternative to culture-based cell death detection is an assessment of other cell viability indicators using fluorescent dyes, including membrane potential and membrane integrity. Live/Dead assays differentiates live and dead cells using membrane integrity as a proxy for cell viability and are based on a fluorescent staining procedure followed by detection using flow cytometry. However, samples preparation for such flow cytometry-based techniques could be challenging. Cell harvesting by trypsinization, mechanical or enzymatic cell disaggregation from tissues, extensive centrifugation steps, may all lead to preferential loss of apoptotic cells. To overcome this strictly follow manufacturers instruction of the detection kit.

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LIVE/DEAD™ Cell-Mediated Cytotoxicity Kit, for animal cells

Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Incubate cells in staining solution overnight under normal culture conditions.	Effector cells were added at effector-to-target (E:T) ratios of 1.25:1, 2.5:1, 5:1, 10:1, 20:1, 40:1, and 80:1.

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Incubate cells in staining solution overnight under normal culture conditions.
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Effector cells were added at effector-to-target (E:T) ratios of 1.25:1, 2.5:1, 5:1, 10:1, 20:1, 40:1, and 80:1.

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RealTime-Glo™ MT Cell Viability Assay

Promega

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	Add 1 × RealTime-Glo MT Cell Viability Assay reagent to the culture	Luminescence was read on a Tecan Infinite M200 plate reader at 3, 6, 12, 22, 31, and 47 h.

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Add 1 × RealTime-Glo MT Cell Viability Assay reagent to the culture
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Luminescence was read on a Tecan Infinite M200 plate reader at 3, 6, 12, 22, 31, and 47 h.

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Cellstain-Double Staining Kit

Dojindo

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	Mix 2μM calcein AM and and 4 μM propidium iodide and incubate the mixture for 15 minutes at 37C

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Mix 2μM calcein AM and and 4 μM propidium iodide and incubate the mixture for 15 minutes at 37C

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