Morphological observation and analysis using automated image cytometry for the comparison of trypan blue and fluorescence-based viability detection method |
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Authors: | Leo Li-Ying Chan Dmitry Kuksin Daniel J Laverty Stephanie Saldi Jean Qiu |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Technology R&D, Nexcelom Bioscience LLC, 360 Merrimack St. Building 9, Lawrence, MA, USA 3. Center for Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA, 01845, USA 2. Department of Biology, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA, 01845, USA
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Abstract: | The ability to accurately determine cell viability is essential to performing a well-controlled biological experiment. Typical experiments range from standard cell culturing to advanced cell-based assays that may require cell viability measurement for downstream experiments. The traditional cell viability measurement method has been the trypan blue (TB) exclusion assay. However, since the introduction of fluorescence-based dyes for cell viability measurement using flow or image-based cytometry systems, there have been numerous publications comparing the two detection methods. Although previous studies have shown discrepancies between TB exclusion and fluorescence-based viability measurements, image-based morphological analysis was not performed in order to examine the viability discrepancies. In this work, we compared TB exclusion and fluorescence-based viability detection methods using image cytometry to observe morphological changes due to the effect of TB on dead cells. Imaging results showed that as the viability of a naturally-dying Jurkat cell sample decreased below 70 %, many TB-stained cells began to exhibit non-uniform morphological characteristics. Dead cells with these characteristics may be difficult to count under light microscopy, thus generating an artificially higher viability measurement compared to fluorescence-based method. These morphological observations can potentially explain the differences in viability measurement between the two methods. |
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Keywords: | Trypan blue exclusion Image cytometry Cellometer Morphology Fluorescence Acridine orange Propidium iodide Viability |
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