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Layered Agar Mounting: Preparing Live Zebrafish Embryos for Long-Term Imaging with an Inverted Microscope
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2023
This article describes a method to mount live zebrafish embryos for long term imaging. This method is cost effective and easy to perform using regular glass-bottom microscopy dishes for imaging on Inverted Microscope. The mounting is performed in layers of agarose at different concentrations.
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The Inverted-face Effect
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2023
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University In perception, it is often the case that the ability to recognize and interpret complex stimuli feels effortless but actually demands complicated and intensive processing. This is because processing is specialized and automated for certain types of very important stimuli. Among the best examples of this phenomenon is face processing. People do not try to detect and recognize faces. It just seems to happen. However, detecting faces...
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Streamlined Intravital Imaging Approach for Long-Term Monitoring of Epithelial Tissue Dynamics on an Inverted Confocal Microscope
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The protocol presents a new tool to simplify intravital imaging using inverted confocal microscopy.
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Inverting and Non-inverting OpAmps
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2024
In an inverting amplifier, the input voltage is connected through a resistor to the inverting terminal. Meanwhile, the non-inverting terminal is grounded and a feedback resistor is established between the inverting and output terminal, as depicted in Figure 1. Figure 1: The inverting amplifier The objective is to discern the relationship between the input voltage (vi) and the output voltage (vo). By applying Kirchhoff's Current Law (KCL) and presuming the operational amplifier to be ideal, the...
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Single Phase Inverter
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2023
Source: Ali Bazzi, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. DC power is unidirectional and flows in one direction, whereas, AC current alternates directions at a frequency of 50-60 Hz. Most common electronic devices are designed to run off of AC power; therefore an input DC source must be inverted to AC. Inverters convert DC voltage to AC through switching action that repeatedly flips the polarity of the input DC source at the output or load side for part of...
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The position of the objective beneath the specimen lets it focus through the bottom of a culture dish or flask. This arrangement keeps the sample in its growth vessel during observation, so imaging can follow living material without transferring it. The setup is therefore especially compatible with samples whose organization or behavior changes during development.
Illumination choice determines what the image emphasizes. Transmitted light can reveal cellular structures through light passing through the sample, whereas fluorescence can reveal cellular structures using fluorescent contrast. These complementary modes allow investigators to examine both general cellular organization and selected structures, helping connect visible cell-level changes with developmental events.
Time-lapse imaging adds a temporal dimension by recording observations at successive points rather than relying on a single view. This makes it possible to follow processes such as cell division, migration, differentiation, and tissue formation as they unfold. In developmental biology, those sequences help relate transient cellular behaviors to later developmental outcomes.
Embryos, organoids, and cultured cells are suitable specimens because the method can observe them while they remain in their culture environment. Live imaging of these samples supports examination of cell division, migration, differentiation, and tissue formation. This range lets developmental biologists study both early cellular behavior and larger-scale organization.
A basic workflow begins by placing the specimen in an appropriate culture vessel and positioning the objective beneath it. The objective is focused through the vessel bottom, after which researchers use transmitted light or fluorescence to visualize the sample. Repeated observations can then document structural changes, movements, or developmental events over time.
Its value lies in linking observations at the cellular level with changes in developing tissues. Imaging can document how cell division, migration, and differentiation occur while tissue formation progresses, rather than treating the final structure as an isolated endpoint. This connection helps researchers interpret developmental outcomes in relation to the dynamic behaviors that produced them.