mitotracker

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Blend of mitochondria +‎ tracker

Noun[edit]

mitotracker (plural mitotrackers)

  1. (cytology) Any of a family of commercial fluorescent dyes used to stain mitochondria in living cells
    • 2015 December 15, “Collagen Promotes Higher Adhesion, Survival and Proliferation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      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.