Hi Laurie,

Propidium iodide is a DNA intercalator that fluoresces red (ex 488nm).

Regards,
Merced

--On Thursday, May 20, 2010 11:13 AM -0700 Laurie Colbert <laurie.colb...@huntingtonhospital.com> wrote:

We normally coverslip our immunofluorescence slides with a permanent
aqueous mounting medium.  By mistake, today they were coverslipped with
a mounting medium that we use for coverslipping our FISH slides.  This
mounting medium is described as "Mounting medium for fluorescence, with
propidium iodide."

Will this make a difference when reading the slides??



Laurie Colbert

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