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Analysis of Cell Suspensions Isolated from Solid Tissues by Spectral Flow Cytometry
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This article describes spectral cytometry, a new approach in flow cytometry that uses the shapes of emission spectra to distinguish fluorochromes. An algorithm replaces compensations and can treat auto-fluorescence as an independent parameter. This new approach allows for the proper analysis of cells isolated from solid organs.
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High-plex Imaging using Spectral Confocal Microscopy to Minimize Non-specific Tissue Fluorescence
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2025
Spectral Iterative Bleaching Extends Multiplexity (IBEX) builds upon the base IBEX technique by adding heparin blocking to minimize nonspecific binding and leveraging spectral detection with computational unmixing to suppress autofluorescence. This approach accelerates image acquisition while reducing sources of background, enabling robust multi-round, high-parameter spatial proteomic analyses.
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In vivo Quantification of G Protein Coupled Receptor Interactions using Spectrally Resolved Two-photon Microscopy
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2011
By employing a spectrally resolved two-photon microscopy imaging system, pixel-level maps of Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) efficiencies are obtained for cells expressing membrane receptors hypothesized to form homo-oligomeric complexes. From the FRET efficiency maps, we are able to estimate stoichiometric information about the oligomer complex under study.
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RGB and Spectral Root Imaging for Plant Phenotyping and Physiological Research: Experimental Setup and Imaging Protocols
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2017
An experimental protocol is presented for assessment of soil grown plant root systems with RGB and hyperspectral imaging. Combination of RGB image time series with chemometric information from hyperspectral scans optimizes insights into plant root dynamics.
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Thin Layer Chromatography-Based Separation of Mycolic Acid Variants: A Method to Separate Mycobacterial Cell Wall Lipids Based on Polarity
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2025
This video demonstrates the thin-layer chromatography-based separation of mycolic acids. This technique separates the different mycolic acids—long-chain lipids present in the cell wall of mycobacteria—based on their polarity.
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It compares how molecules, cells, or signals interact with different wavelengths through absorption, emission, or scattering. Components with distinguishable optical patterns can then be detected selectively rather than treated as one combined signal. This wavelength-based comparison is especially useful when several labels or molecular signals occupy the same biological sample.
Overlapping signals can obscure the contribution of individual molecules, labels, or cellular features. Spectral unmixing addresses this problem by resolving combined measurements into distinguishable signal components using computational analysis. The resulting separation improves measurement specificity and allows researchers to examine several features in a complex sample without interpreting interference as a biological difference.
Separation depends on measurable differences in wavelength-dependent absorption, emission, or scattering. Signals that produce distinct spectral patterns are more amenable to selective detection or computational resolution, whereas closely overlapping patterns are more difficult to distinguish. These properties determine how clearly researchers can characterize multiple components within the same biological measurement.
The underlying spectral principle remains similar, but the biological measurement differs. Fluorescence microscopy applies separation to signals associated with cellular structures, flow cytometry supports analysis of labeled cells, and spectroscopic analysis examines molecular or biochemical signals. Thus, the method adapts to imaging, cell-based measurement, or broader biochemical characterization.
A typical workflow begins by measuring the sample across relevant wavelengths and recording absorption, emission, or scattering patterns. Researchers then identify distinguishable signals and apply selective detection or computational spectral unmixing to resolve them. The separated outputs can be interpreted to characterize cellular structures, molecular components, or changes in the biological system.
In fluorescence microscopy, it is useful when multiple labels or fluorescent signals are present and their emissions could interfere with one another. Separating those signals helps researchers associate optical measurements with particular cellular structures. This supports more specific imaging of complex biological samples and enables simultaneous examination of several features.
Flow cytometry can use spectral separation to distinguish signals associated with different labeled cell features during analysis. Resolving overlapping optical measurements supports simultaneous analysis of complex cell samples and reduces ambiguity about which signal contributes to an observation. The approach therefore helps characterize cellular properties when multiple signals are recorded together.
Separated spectroscopic signals can help researchers characterize biochemical interactions, molecular components, and changes occurring in biological systems. By reducing interference between measurements, the method makes patterns easier to associate with particular biological features or processes. This is valuable when a sample contains several components whose optical responses would otherwise be difficult to interpret independently.