Suha Mahmood A. Alghazal^1,2*, Jiuping Ding¹

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¹ Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
² Departments Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Mosul, Mosul, Iraq.
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Abstract: Recently, fluorescence technique becomes very useful. It can allow for addressing a fundamental problem of cellular mechanism besides characterizing the species inside the cell to facilitate the diagnostic and prognostic value. Manipulation with fluorescent dyes provides many possibilities for their use as tags, probes, and sensors. These types can be intrinsic or extrinsic to the cell. They can become not only silent observers, but also participants, modulators or disruptors of specific activities outline the biological functions can be successfully studied quantitatively and qualitatively with fluorescence techniques.

Keywords: Ca2+ Imaging, Sperm Mice, Ca2+ Channel, Fluoresce Microscopy

Cite this paper: Alghazal, S. and Ding, J. (2015) Fluorescence Technique Description for Measuring Ca²⁺ in Mice Sperm. Advances in Molecular Imaging, 5, 29-37. doi: 10.4236/ami.2015.52003.

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