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Cell Sorting Guidelines

The document provides guidelines for cell sorting at the Brown Flow Cytometry Facility. Sorting requires a prior appointment that is scheduled at least one week in advance. Users must provide samples between 5x10^6 and 1x10^7 cells per ml, as well as control samples for calibration. Samples are sorted from 10am to 4:30pm Monday through Friday, and users will be billed for the time reserved.

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Cell Sorting Guidelines

The document provides guidelines for cell sorting at the Brown Flow Cytometry Facility. Sorting requires a prior appointment that is scheduled at least one week in advance. Users must provide samples between 5x10^6 and 1x10^7 cells per ml, as well as control samples for calibration. Samples are sorted from 10am to 4:30pm Monday through Friday, and users will be billed for the time reserved.

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Brown Flow Cytometry Facility


Cell Sorting Guidelines
Cell Sorting:

 Sorting is done by prior appointment only. Due to set up time required, please
explain your needs thoroughly when scheduling an appointment. A completed
Cell Sort Request Form must be submitted before your appointment will be
confirmed. Scheduling generally should be done about one week in advance.

 Sorting hours are from 10:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. Monday through Friday.
Extended hours (early or late time) can be arranged a the time of initial
scheduling.

 Any cancellations with less than a 24 hour notice before scheduled start time
will be charged 1 hour. No-shows will be charged for time reserved.

 All users must provide an account for billing at time of scheduling. Users will
be billed monthly.

 Scheduling is on a first come, first served basis.

SORT SAMPLE PREPARATION GUIDELINES:

 Do not fill sample tubes over 2/3 full.

 Suspend cells in PBS at 5 X 106 per ml - 1 X 107 per ml.

 Sample cell concentration affects sort speed.

 Use the highest concentration possible while maintaining a


single cell suspension.
 We can dilute samples at sorting facility but cannot concentrate
them.

 Control Samples: For all sort operations a negative or unstained control and a
separate single stain control sample tube for each stain to be used is required
for instrument pre-sort calibration. (ie: if you are using FITC, PE, PECy7, APC, a
control sample of each is required for calibration and compensation of
instrument. In this case, 5 control samples total including unstained cell
sample)

 GFP sort requires only a negative or not-transfected (not-transduced) control


sample.

 Control samples should be prepared the same as the sort sample from the
same type of cells as experiment samples.

 Each control sample should contain a minimum of around 200,000 cells.

COLLECTION TUBE PREPARATION:

 Pre-coating tubes with serum or media/buffer is recommended. Collection


media/buffer can also be added to the tubes (no more than 1 ml).

 Populations can be simultaneously be sorted into: 12 X 75mm tubes or 17 X


120mm tubes or 15 ml tubes

SINGLE CELL SORTING:

 Single cells can be sorted at 1 – 50,000 cells into 6 to 96 well micro titer plates
or onto a slide.

 Plates must be pre-filled (100 microliters of complete medium in 96 well plate).

For any further questions regarding sorting, please contact us:

[email protected]

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