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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 24.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Mol Biol. 2011;699:119–164. doi: 10.1007/978-1-61737-950-5_7

Table 1.

Non-Perturbing Membrane-Dye Staining Conditions for Selected Cell Types

Cell type Final cell concentration Final dye concentration Reference(s)
hPBMCa(high cell #) 1 × 107cells/mL 2 µM PKH67 (49)
3 × 107cells/mL 4 µM CellVue Claret (45)
5 × 107cells/mL 5 µM CellVue Claret Fig. 6

hPBMCa(low cell #) 5 × 106cells/mL 2 µM PKH26 (50)
1 × 106cells/mL 1 µM CellVue Claret Figs. 8 and 10

Cultured cell lines 1 × 107/mL 15 µM PKH26 (U937) Fig. 4b
1 × 107/mL 12.5–15 µM PKH26 (U937) (41)
1 × 107/mL 1 µM PKH67 (K562) Fig. 5
1 × 107/mL 1 µM PKH67 (polyclonal T cell lines) (15)
1 × 107/mL 10 µM CellVue Claret (YAC-1) E. Breslin, personal communication
a

A low-speed wash (300 × g) post-Ficoll–Hypaque was used to minimize platelet contamination (see Note 11)