From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Wed Apr 06 23:00:00 1994 Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!zib-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!scsing.switch.ch!aragorn.unibe.ch!pylm64.unibe.ch!niggli From: Ernst Niggli Subject: Sodium green Message-ID: <1994Mar28.141443.1533@aragorn.unibe.ch> X-Xxmessage-Id: X-Xxdate: Mon, 28 Mar 94 15:14:40 GMT Sender: news@aragorn.unibe.ch Organization: University of Bern X-Useragent: Version 1.1.3 Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 14:14:43 GMT Lines: 22 Does anyone have experience (good or bad) with the fluorescent sodium indicator "Sodium green"? We tried it in cardiac myocytes (salt loading and AM-ester). The dye did not appear to be Na sensitive but seemed to bind to susbcellular structures. Any help would be appreciated. Regards Ernst Niggli University of Bern Department of Physiology Buhlplatz 5 3012 Bern E-mail: niggli@pyl.unibe.ch .