Antifade Mounting Medium with DAPI

Antifade Mounting Medium with DAPI is an aqueous anti-fade mounting medium designed to preserve fluorescence when imaging tissues and cell samples. It is fortified with DAPI as a counter-stain for DNA (DAPI also stains RNA) .

Product Specifications

Applications

Form

Liquid

Storage Conditions

Shipped at 4°C. Store at -20°C for one year. Protect from light. Avoid freeze/thaw cycles.

Specificity

The formulation prevents rapid photobleaching of FITC, Texas Red, AMCA, Cy2, Cy3, Cy5, Alexa fluoro 488, Alexa fluoro 594, Green fluorescent protein (GFP), tetramethyly rhodamine, RPhycoerythrin (R-PE), Phyocyanin (PC), and Allophycocyanin (APC) . Fluorescence is retained during prolonged storage at 4°C in the dark. This medium does not contain phenylenediamine, which destroys immunofluorescence of Cy dyes, R-PE, PC and APC.