Oklahoma State University View Institution's Website 10 articles published in JoVE Biology High-Resolution Fluoro-Respirometry of Equine Skeletal Muscle Michael Scott Davis1, Montana Renae Barrett1 1Department of Physiological Sciences, Oklahoma State University Horses have an exceptional aerobic exercise capacity, making equine skeletal muscle an important tissue for both the study of equine exercise physiology as well as mammalian mitochondrial physiology. This article describes techniques for the comprehensive assessment of mitochondrial function in equine skeletal muscle. Immunology and Infection Zebrafish Animal Model for the Study of Allergic Reactions in Response to Tick Saliva Biomolecules Marinela Contreras1, Almudena González-García1, José de la Fuente1,2 1SaBio. Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC (CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), 2Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State University Here, zebrafish (Danio rerio) is used as a model to study allergic reactions and immune responses related to alpha-Gal syndrome (AGS) by evaluating allergic reactions to tick saliva and mammalian meat consumption. Neuroscience Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy (CARS) Application for Imaging Myelination in Brain Slices Elizabeth A. McCullagh1, Shani Poleg2, Dominik Stich3, Radu Moldovan*3, Achim Klug*2 1Department of Integrative Biology, Oklahoma State University, 2Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Colorado Anschutz, 3Advanced Light Microscopy Core, University of Colorado Anschutz Visualizing myelination is an important goal for many researchers studying the nervous system. CARS is a technique that is compatible with immunofluorescence that can natively image lipids within tissue such as the brain illuminating specialized structures such as myelin. Chemistry Interactive Molecular Model Assembly with 3D Printing Elham Fazelpour1, Christopher J. Fennell1 1Department of Chemistry, Oklahoma State University Physical modeling of microscopic systems helps obtain insights that are difficult to gain by other means. To facilitate the construction of physical molecular models, we demonstrate how 3D printing can be used to assemble functional macroscopic models that capture qualities of molecular systems in a tactile way. Engineering Terahertz Imaging and Characterization Protocol for Freshly Excised Breast Cancer Tumors Nagma Vohra*1, Tyler Bowman*1, Keith Bailey2, Magda El-Shenawee1 1Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, 2Oklahoma Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Oklahoma State University Freshly excised human breast cancer tumors are characterized with terahertz spectroscopy and imaging following fresh tissue handling protocols. Tissue positioning is taken into consideration to enable effective characterization while providing analysis in a timely manner for future intraoperative applications. Immunology and Infection Three-dimensional Imaging of Bacterial Cells for Accurate Cellular Representations and Precise Protein Localization Benjamin P. Bratton2, Brody Barton1, Randy M. Morgenstein1 1Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University, 2Department of Molecular Biology and Lewis-Sigler Institute of Integrative Genomics, Princeton University This protocol explains how to prepare and mount bacterial samples for live three-dimensional imaging and how to reconstruct the three-dimensional shape of E. coli from those images. Immunology and Infection Combining Analysis of DNA in a Crude Virion Extraction with the Analysis of RNA from Infected Leaves to Discover New Virus Genomes Jeanmarie Verchot1, Aastha Thapa2, Dulanjani Wijayasekara3, Peter R. Hoyt4 1Texas A&M Agrilife Center at Dallas, 2Noble Research Center, Oklahoma State University, 3Department of Biology, College of Engineering and Natural Sciences, The University of Tulsa, 4Bioinformatics and Genomics Core Facility, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University Here we present a new approach to identify plant viruses with double-strand DNA genomes. We use standard methods to extract DNA and RNA from infected leaves and carry out next-generation sequencing. Bioinformatic tools assemble sequences into contigs, identify contigs representing virus genomes and assign genomes to taxonomic groups. Biology Single-cell Microfluidic Analysis of Bacillus subtilis Matthew T. Cabeen1, Richard Losick2 1Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University, 2Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University We present a method for the microfluidic analysis of individual bacterial cell lineages using Bacillus subtilis as an example. The method overcomes shortcomings of traditional analytical methods in microbiology by allowing observation of hundreds of cell generations under tightly controllable and uniform growth conditions. Neuroscience Electrophysiological Recording in the Brain of Intact Adult Zebrafish Lindsey Johnston1, Rebecca E. Ball2, Seth Acuff3, John Gaudet4, Andrew Sornborger5, James D. Lauderdale2 1Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, 2Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, 3College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology, Oklahoma State University, 4University of Georgia, 5Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis This paper describes how an adult zebrafish can be immobilized, intubated, and used for in vivo electrophysiological experiments to allow recordings and manipulation of neural activity in an intact animal. Immunology and Infection RNA Interference in Ticks Katherine M. Kocan1, Edmour Blouin1, José de la Fuente1,2 1Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, 2(CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC A method for RNA interference (RNAi) by injection of dsRNA into unfed ticks is described. RNAi is the most widely used gene-silencing technique in ticks where the use of other methods of genetic manipulation has been limited.