Safranin

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Description

Safranin is amongst the extrinsic fluorophores used in fluorometry and is one of the most established dyes for measuring mitochondrial membrane potential. The excitation wavelength for this dye is 495 nm and the emission wavelength is 587 nm).

Abbreviation: Saf

Reference: Komary 2010 Biochim Biophys Acta, Kauppinen RA, Hassinen IE (1984) Monitoring of mitochondrial membrane potential in isolated perfused rat heart. Am J Physiol 247: H508-H516.

MitoPedia methods: Fluorometry 

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