Is staurosporine can use as a positive control for caspase staining on frozen sections?

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Sreelakshmi Vasudevan

Thank you Sebastian!

Sundararajan Mahalingam

Hi Sreelakshmi,

Staurosporin, a potent, non-selective inhibitor of protein kinases widely used for inducing apoptotic events in various cell types including lens epithelial cell lines. But in the frozen tissues, this will not work.

kind regards,

Sundar