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CFSE
Introduction
CFSE (Carboxyfluorescein succinimidyl ester) is a fluorescent cell staining dye. CFSE is not cell permeable and cannot be used to stain intracellularly.
It is sometimes confused in the literature with CFDA-SE, a cell-permeable fluorescent dye used primarily in cell proliferation research.