Discontinuation Notice
NOTE: This update does not impact the BD Accuri™ C6 Plus Personal Flow Cytometer
BD has discontinued selling the BD Accuri™ C6 Flow Cytometer as of December 31, 2016. Service for BD Accuri™ C6 Systems and their related options will continue until December 31, 2021.
All current service contracts will be honored. Current extended warranties will not be affected and will be supported until they expire.
One-year and multi-year extended warranty renewals will continue to be offered until January 1, 2021, provided these contracts end on or before December 31, 2021.
After contracts terminate, BD will support the BD Accuri™ C6 System for as long as reasonably possible, for example, depending on parts availability.
If you have any questions regarding this matter, please see the following Frequently Asked Questions or contact BD Service Contracts Administration at 1.877.232.8995, prompt 4.
For information and special offers on the new BD Accuri™ C6 Plus Personal Flow Cytometer, please visit our page.
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BD Accuri™ C6 Flow Cytometer Resources
Download the catalog of available kits and templates or select from the following table
Kits & Templates
| Category | Product Information Sheet | Brand | Kit | Cat. No | C6 Plus Template |
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| Cancer and Cell Biology | |||||
| BD Apoptosis Kits and Templates | BD Pharmingen™ | Annexin V FITC Apoptosis Detection Kit II | 556570 |
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| BD Pharmingen™ | Annexin V PE Apoptosis Detection Kit I | 559763 |
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| BD® | MitoScreen (JC-1) Kit | 551302 |
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| BD Pharmingen™ | Caspase-3 PE Assay Kit | 550914 |
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| BD Pharmingen™ | Caspase-3 FITC Assay Kit | 550480 |
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| BD Apoptosis, DNA Damage and Cell Proliferation Kit and Template | BD Pharmingen™ | Apoptosis, DNA Damage and Cell Proliferation Kit | 562253 |
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| BD Cell Cycle and DNA Kits and Templates | BD Cycletest™ Plus | DNA Reagent Kit | 340242 |
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| BD Pharmingen™ | FITC BrdU Flow Kit | 559619 |
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| BD Pharmingen™ | APC BrdU Flow Kit | 552598 |
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| Immunology | |||||
| BD Naïve/Memory T-Cell Kits and Templates | BD Multitest™ | CD45RA/CD45RO/CD3/CD4 | 340571 |
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| BD Multitest™ | CD45RA/CD62L/CD3/CD4 | 340977 |
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| BD Pharmingen™ | Human Naïve/Memory T Cell Panel | 561438 |
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| BD Intracellular T-Cell Kits and Templates | BD Pharmingen™ | Th1/Th2/Th17 Phenotyping Kit | 560751 |
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| BD FastImmune™ | IFN-γ/CD69/CD8/CD3 Kit | 346048 |
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| BD FastImmune™ | IFN-γ/IL-4 Kit | 340456 |
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| BD Regulatory T-Cell Kits and Templates | BD Pharmingen™ | Human Regulatory T Cell Cocktail | 560249 |
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| BD Pharmingen™ | Human Th17/Treg Phenotyping Kit | 560762 |
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| BD Pharmingen™ | FoxP3 Staining Kit | 560132 |
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| BD Mouse B-Lymphocyte Kits and Templates | BD Pharmingen™ | Mouse B-Lymphocyte Subset Antibody Cocktail | 558332 |
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| BD Pharmingen™ | Mouse B-Lymphocyte Activation Antibody Cocktail | 558063 |
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| BD Mouse T-Cell Cytokine and Treg Kits and Templates | BD Pharmingen™ | Mouse Th1/Th2/Th17 Phenotyping Kit | 560758 |
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| BD Pharmingen™ | Mouse Th17/Treg Phenotyping Kit | 560767 |
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| BD Mouse T-Lymphocyte Kits and Templates | BD Pharmingen™ | Mouse T-Lymphocyte Subset Antibody Cocktail | 558431 |
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| BD Pharmingen™ | Mouse T-Lymphocyte Activation Antibody Cocktail | 557908 |
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| Stem Cells | |||||
| BD Pluripotent Stem Cell Kits and Templates | BD Stemflow™ | Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Sorting and Analysis Kit | 560461 |
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| BD Stemflow™ | Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Transcription Factor Analysis Kit | 560589 |
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| BD Stemflow™ | Human and Mouse Pluripotent Stem Cell Analysis Kit | 560477 |
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| BD Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Kit and Template | BD Stemflow™ | Human iPSC Sorting and Analysis Kit | 562626 |
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| BD Human Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Kit and Template | BD Stemflow™ | Human MSC Analysis Kit | 562245 |
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| Bead-Based Assays | |||||
| BD® Cytometric Bead Array (CBA) Reagents | BD® | CBA Kits | See Kits | Download |
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| BD® | CBA Flex Sets | See Flex Sets | Download |
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| Microbiology | |||||
| BD Accuri™ C6 Eawag Water Quality Template | BD Accuri™ | Eawag Water Quality Template | - | Download |
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| BD Accuri™ C6 Software User Guide | BD Accuri™ | 8 and 6 Peak Bead Template | 653144 653145 653160 | Download |
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| BD Accuri™ | 8 and 6 Peak Bead Template 24-Tube Rack | 653144 653145 653160 |
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Once you have downloaded a template, select File > Open Workspace or Template and open it. Gate positions, zoom level, thresholds, compensation, run and fluidics settings are all fully adjustable and may require optimization for different sample types. Once the settings are optimized for your experiment, click Run to begin data acquisition.
Note: The linked templates on this page are provided for the convenience of our research customers. Although they have not been validated, they have been used by BD or our customers to generate the sample data in the product information sheets. The templates have been designed using the current BD Accuri™ C6 Software, version 264.21. They are not compatible with version 172.9, 227.4, or 202.8 software. Further optimization may be required before use, and it is the end user's responsibility to ensure that use of the template is appropriate to their research.
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