Abstract
Two specially shaped sample injection tubes orient flat-shaped mature sperm heads in a flow cytometer. Orientation allows control of a photometric difficulty experienced with some flow cytometers in the measurement of fluorescent and scattered light from sperm and other flat cells. Both relative DNA-stain content and a measure of cell flatness can now be determined simultaneously for each cell at the high rates possible with flow instruments.
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