Re: coverslips for cell culture

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Hi.
I'm doing this kind of things with Hek cells or myotubes on cell culture round dishes with glass coverslip bottom of several kind. The coverslip has to be 0.17mm thin, but I never had any autofluorescence problem. I'm for instance using (from Fisher Scientist) Delta TPG dish, 0.17mm. They have a thick ring of plastic surrounding the glass coverslip, so it is hard to focus on the cells that are on the edge, but I just cut it with scissor and it works pretty well.
I wish you good luck
Sandrine



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Hi!
 
I’m planning to grow adherent cells for later staining with fluorescently labelled antibodies. Previously I’ve done this by adding a sterile round coverslip in a 12 well plate and kept the cells on the coverslip through out the staining and fixation and then just "mounted" them on a microscope slide. My questions are:
- Do you have any suggestions for which coverslips to purchase, I guess they have to be thin enough and without auto fluorescence.
- Is there any alternative? I saw that Nunc sells a Lab tek product that sounds like what I´m looking for.
 
Thanks a lot
/ Fredrik