Apoptosis is a form of programmed cell death which is essential as a normal part of development in multicellular organisms. Apoptosis go awry in some disease states such as Alzheimer’s and cancer.
Annexin V-FITC Apoptosis Assay is designed to detect apoptosis. It is based on a property of apoptotic cell where during onset of apoptosis, cells translocate the membrane phosphatidyl serine from inner face of plasma membrane to cell surface. Annexin V protein has high binding affinity for phosphatidyl serine in presence of calcium ions. Thus Annexin V-FITC bound cell is apoptotic and can be quantified by FACS. Furthermore, propidium iodide is supplied in kit to differentiate apoptotic cells from necrotic cells.
Features:
- Designed to detect cells undergoing apoptosis
- Available in 100 assays or 500 assays formatwith 100 μl assay volume.
- Can differentiate between apoptotic and dead cells.
- Suitable for flowcytometery and fluorescence microscope based experiments.
- Rapid:Staining can be done within 30minutes.
Advantage(s):
- detect cells undergoing apoptosis
- Can differentiate between apoptotic cells and necrotic cells as necrotic cells are stained with propidium iodide.