Mitotracker

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of a family of commercial fluorescent dyes used to stain mitochondria in living cells

    "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."

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

Blend of mitochondria + tracker.

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