From the archives, here's a micrograph of a fibroblast (connective tissue cell) adherring to fibronectin coated coverslip. The cell was immunostained for regular microtubules (red) and modified detyrosinated microtubules (green, although since these are only partialy modified red+green = yellow).
Here are some strange crystals that appeared on my coverslip one day, I had just to take a picture:
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I'm away in California - while I'm gone, I'm reposting all these old entries on microscopy, enjoy!
Here's a micrograph of a fibroblast (connective tissue cell) adherring to fibronectin coated coverslip. The cell was immunostained for regular microtubules (red) and modified detyrosinated…
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Here is a video from Nikon (maker of great microscopes) of mouse fibroblasts (connective tissue cells) dividing and migrating around a coverslip.
Ah, this is why I became a cell biologist. Look at those guys go! (And to think that some would call them bags…
(OK folks I'll be back this afternoon, this post is the last in serries of entries from my old blogs ... and this one is a hard core science entry from about 1 year ago ... enjoy)
Late last week I posted an entry on tubulin modification ... an area of research that one well respected cytoskeletal…
In this day, some biologist have to move beyond the simplistic view that the cell is a bag of M&Ms. What do I mean by that? It's the idea that enzymes and organelles are free floating entities within the cell.
On the other hand, don't tell me that the cytoskeleton provides a static skeleton…
You should photoshop a little Enterprise racing away from the "supernova" in the top graphic.
Cool pic.
And what are these crystals? very interesting.
very nostalgic pictures!!!
I never found out. They look like sodium chloride crystals, however NaCl should have disolved in the staining media ... maybe the crystals were traped in an air bubble?