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  • Title: Intracellular calibration of the fluorescent calcium indicator Fura-2.
    Author: Williams DA, Fay FS.
    Journal: Cell Calcium; 1990; 11(2-3):75-83. PubMed ID: 2354505.
    Abstract:
    We present the techniques we have used and the problems we have encountered in our laboratories in the in vivo calibration of the fluorescent Ca2(+)-indicator Fura-2. These techniques include the use of potentiometric methods for the precise control and determination of Ca2+ levels in bathing solutions, in association with methods for the equilibration of internal and external solutions with ionophores (Br-A23187, ionomycin, monensin and nigericin). A by-product of these techniques has been the development of a simple procedure that utilizes Fura-2 as a general indicator of ionized Ca2+ concentrations within the physiological range (pCa 7.5 to 5.5), in other experimental solutions. The major advantages of this relatively simple procedure are that it is (i) rapidly performed, (ii) independent of the total EGTA concentration within each experimental solution, (iii) independent of the absolute EGTA purity, and (iv) unaffected by a large number of potentially interfering cations (i.e. Mg2+, H+, K+, Na+) within the test solutions.
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