Molecular Cellbiology - Zebrafish demonstration movies

Time lapse of a zebrafish cell grown in culture.
Time lapse of a zebrafish cell grown in culture.

Cells of cell line ZF13 were transfected with a plasmid expressing a GFP-actin fusion protein and monitored with confocal laser scanning microscopy. More details can be found in the following paper: Breek, C. K. D., F. van Iren, S. E. Wijting, N. Stuurman, and H. P. Spaink. 2002. Expression of multicolor fluorescent fusion proteins in zebrafish cell cultures: a versatile tool in cell biology, p. 373-379. In: Kraayenhof, Visser, and Gerritsen (eds.), Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Imaging and Probes. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg.

Time lapse of zebrafish embryo during 18 hrs of development.
Timelapse of zebrafish embryo during 18 hrs of development

(by Rolf Karlstrom and Don Kane; Development 123:461, 1966). This movie is taken from the zfin web page

Time lapse movie of zebrafish cells using the fluorescent calcium dye fluo-4.
Timelapse movie of zebrafish cells using the fluorescent calcium dye fluo-4.

(Author, Nico Stuurman, Institute of Biology Leiden). Addition of epidermal growth factor to these cells leads to a strong increase in the cytosolic calcium concentration.

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