Bushong, Eric A.; Martone, Maryann E.; Ellisman, Mark H. (2021). CIL:40171, Rattus norvegicus, astrocyte, astrocyte of the hippocampus. In Cell Image Library. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0C24WKF

Projection through merged optical section series of adjacent hippocampal astrocytes from a 1-week old male rat, injected with Lucifer Yellow (green) and Alexa568 (red) respectively, imaged with confocal microscopy. Optical sections were generated with a single photon confocal microscope. Original data contributed to Bushong EA, Martone ME, Ellisman MH. Maturation of astrocyte morphology and the establishment of astrocyte domains during postnatal hippocampal development. Int J Dev Neurosci. 2004 Apr;22(2):73-86. This image has been downsampled from the raw data image which can be accessed using the link provided to the Cell Centered Database.

• 2021

• Bushong, Eric A.
• Ellisman, Mark H.
• Martone, Maryann E.

Intracellular injection of astrocytes in lightly fixed tissue slices was performed as previously described, with some modifications (Buhl et al., [1990], PMID: 2262598). The brain was placed in ice-cold PBS and cut into coronal slices with a vibratome at a thickness of 100 µm, and stored in PBS at 4°C until used. The slices were placed under a 60x water objective (NA 1.4) and observed with an Olympus BX50WI microscope using infrared-DIC optics (Olympus, Melville, NY). Astrocytes in the upper blade of the dentate gyrus were identified by the shape and size of their somata. Glass micropipettes (OD 1.00 mm, ID 0.58 mm; resistances 100-400 M) were pulled on a vertical puller (David Kopf Instruments, Tujunga, CA) and backfilled with Alexa 568. Astrocytes were impaled and iontophoretically injected with dye using 1-second pulses of negative current (0.5 Hz) for 1-2 minutes. After several cells were filled, the slices were placed in ice-cold 4% PFA for at least 1 hour. The slices were immunostained and coverslipped using Gelvatol (Harlow and Lane, [1988]) and allowed to set overnight at room temperature before they were examined.
Image acquisition and analysis: Specimens were examined using a Radiance2000 laser scanning confocal system (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA) attached to a Nikon E600FN microscope (Kanagawa, Japan). A 60x oil immersion (NA 1.4) objective was used to image astrocytes.

Preparation: formaldehyde fixed tissue
Relation to intact cell: vibratome-sectioned tissue
Item type: recorded image
Imaging mode: confocal microscopy
Parameter imaged: fluorescence emission
Source of contrast: intracellular filling; distribution of epitope
Visualization methods: Alexa Fluor 568; primary antibody plus labeled secondary antibody; lucifer yellow
Data qualification: Processed

• Cell Image Library Group ID: 12010

• Rattus norvegicus

• Astrocyte
• Astrocyte of the hippocampus
• Cell body
• Cell projection cytoplasm

• Forebrain astrocyte development

• data
• image

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Samplenumber: 40171

Doi: https://doi.org/10.6075/J0C24WKF

Source data

• Source Record in the Cell Image Library: https://doi.org/10.7295/W9CIL40171

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• Item in Cell Centered Database, UC San Diego Library Digital Collections: https://doi.org/10.6075/J0Q81CW9

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