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Distribution of a nuclear envelope antigen during the syncytial mitoses of the early Drosophila embryo as revealed by laser scanning confocal microscopy technology (CAT#: STEM-MIT-0157-LJX)

Introduction

Drosophila often live on rotten fruit or in flowers. Its body size is small, the insect body is mostly yellow brown. Drosophila embryo refers to the young body which has the ability to develop into drosophila adult after several cell division and cell differentiation after the combination of male and female germ cells.<br />Mitosis is a process in which eukaryotic cells divide to produce somatic cells. Mitosis is characterized by the appearance of spindles and chromosomes in the process of cell division, so that the daughter chromosomes that have been replicated in the S phase are evenly distributed to the daughter cells. This kind of division is common in animals and higher plants.




Principle

Laser scanning confocal microscope is a high-tech microscope. It is based on fluorescence microscope imaging and equipped with a laser scanning device, which uses ultraviolet or visible light to excite the fluorescence probe, thereby obtaining fluorescence images of the internal microstructure of cells or tissues.
The laser beam is used as the light source in the laser scanning confocal microscope. The laser beam passes through the illuminating pinhole and is reflected to the objective lens through the spectroscope. The laser beam is focused on the sample, and every point on the focal plane of the specimen is scanned. If there is a fluorescent substance that can be excited in the tissue sample, the fluorescence emitted after excitation is directly reversed back to the spectroscope through the original incident light path, and is first focused when passing through the detection pinhole. The focused light is detected and collected by the photomultiplier tube (PMT), and the signal is sent to the computer, and the image is displayed on the computer monitor after processing.

Applications

Imaging and analysis in the fields of morphology, molecular cell biology, neuroscience, pharmacology, genetics

Procedure

1. Sampling
2. Preparation of slices
3. Staining (Select according to the specific experimental situation)
4. Observation

Materials

• Sample Type:
Drosophila embryo

Notes

Operate in strict accordance with the operating procedures, and shall not arbitrarily change the operating procedures
In the starting sequence of the switch and in the scanning process, try to do fast and orderly, to protect the laser