Measuring Apoptosis and Necrosis Cell Populations by Heat and Compound Induction using the Cellometer Vision
Recently, a new imaging cytometry system has been developed by Nexcelom Bioscience LLC (Lawrence, MA, USA) for fluorescence-based cell population analysis [1, 2]. Originally, the system has been used for automated cell concentration and viability measurement using disposable counting slides with both bright-field (BR) and fluorescent (FL) imaging methods [3]. The system has recently been demonstrated to perform fast and accurate cell population analysis comparable to the traditional flow cytometry method. Cellometer image cytometry systems can perform fluorescence-based cell death assays, which can provide a quick, simple, and inexpensive alternative method for smaller biomedical research laboratories.