mitotracker
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Etymology edit
Blend of mitochondria + tracker
Noun edit
mitotracker (plural mitotrackers)
- (cytology) Any of a family of commercial fluorescent dyes used to stain mitochondria in living cells
- 2015 December 15, “Collagen Promotes Higher Adhesion, Survival and Proliferation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- TMRE was used in our study for mitochondrial staining instead of commonly used mitotracker dyes since we were interested in visualizing only the active mitochondria in the cells.