Fluorochrome

Advantages of Fluoro-Gold:

• Intensely vibrant retrograde fluorescent tracer that is extremely sensitive and reliable
• Not taken up by undamaged fibers of passage
• Does not diffuse out of retrograde-labeled neurons
• Wide range of survival times from one day to over a month
• Stable fluorochrome that takes superlative color and black and white photographs
• Easy and safe
• Long shelf life
• Pure reliable source
• Can be pressure injected or iontophoresed
• Compatible with most other frequently used neuroanatomical techniques such as immunofluorescence, immunocytochemistry, autoradiography, horseradish peroxidase histochemistry, paraffin embedding and other retrograde fluorescent tracers

Advantages of Fluoro-Gold when enhanced by the Antibody to Fluoro-Gold:

• Substantially enhances visualization of Fluoro-Gold
• Allows much more precise anatomical mapping
• Shows extremely fine anatomical structure including dendrites, axons and terminals
• Results in permanent staining when used with Vectastain ABC kit

Fluoro-Gold and Antibody to Fluoro-Gold are easy, reliable and safe to use. Fluoro-Gold can be injected using several different methods including pressure, iontophoretic and other applications developed by a variety of researchers.

Advantages of Fluoro-Ruby:

Fluoro-Ruby is a quick, sensitive, reliable and technically simple fluorescent anterograde tracer and marker. The use of Fluoro-Ruby is essentially the same as Fluoro-Gold. Fluoro-Ruby has been used for many years and is considered a leading anterograde tracer.

Fluorochrome sells the following high quality antibodies:

• Antibody to Fluoro-Gold
• Ki-67 Antibody-W
• GFAP Antibody-W
• BrdU Antibody-W

Our Antibody to Fluoro-Gold is by far the most effective antibody to Fluoro-Gold available. Since Fluorochrome first introduced it in 1998, it has achieved a proven record of accomplishment and has become the standard in the industry.

The Ki-67 Antibody-W, GFAP Antibody-W, and BrdU Antibody-W are excellent antibodies that are recent introductions. Included with these antibodies is filter paper absorbed with a specific blocking peptide. We feel that a blocking agent should be utilized in all investigations using these types of antibodies. Only with a blocking agent can the researcher verify and have confidence that the observed signal is the intended signal. At no additional costs, we have included the blocking agent, which allows the researcher to easily and accurately implement this verication.