Michael Hooker Microscopy Facility (MHMF.ORG)

Mitochiondiral Staining

• Make a stock solution of 100 µM in water and keep this in small quantities in the freezer.

• Add 1 µM final concentraion to your live cells for 15 minutes.

• Wash two times.

Ward, M. W., Rego, A. C., Frenguelli, B. G. and Nicholls, D. G. (2000). 
Mitochondrial membrane potential and glutamate excitotoxicity in cultured 
cerebellar granule cells. J Neurosci 20, 7208–7219

Scaduto, A., Russell, C. J., Grotyohann, A. and Lee, W. (1999). Measurement 
of mitochondrial membrane potential using fluorescent rhodamine derivatives. 
Biophys J 76, 469-477

Heiko Dussmann, Markus Rehm, Donat Kogel, and Jochen H.M. Prehn:
Outer Mitochondrial Membrane Permeabilization During Apoptosis Triggers 
Caspase-Independent Mitochondrial and Caspase-Dependent Plasma Membrane 
Potential Depolarization: A Single-Cell Analysis
in J Cell Science 2003

Before fixation incubate with CMX ROS 50 nM for 30'

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