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fluorescent -transfection problem - (Sep/20/2011 )

Hi!
While transfection of cells with a plasmid containing the GFP gene, I observed cells under a fluorescent microscope, bright fluorescence as well as the damped. Can somebody help me, hence the difference?
Thanks for help,
ATP

-ATP-

Do you mean that you saw fluorescence in the untransfected as well as the transfected? If so, you probably have either autofluorescence or didn't wash out the fixative enough.

-bob1-