Brandner, Dieter; Withers, Ginger (2021). CIL:8778, Rattus, multipolar neuron. In Cell Image Library. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0SB44SH

This color combined image shows the spatial relationship between filamentous actin (red) and microtubule array (green) in cultured hippocampal neurons, grown for 1 day in vitro. Actin staining (with rhodamine phalloidin) highlights the growing tips and filopodial extensions along axons and dendrites, while microtubule staining reveals the stable shafts of these processes.
Detailed Methods: Embryonic rat hippocampal neurons were prepared as previously described (see Kaech and Banker, 2006, Nat Protoc). Cells were prepared for fluorescent staining as previously described (Withers and Banker, 1998, in Culturing Nerve Cells, MIT Press). Briefly, cells were fixed (4% formaldehyde, 4% sucrose in phosphate buffered saline, pH 7.4, 37°C, 15 minutes), permeabilized (0.25% Triton, 7 minutes) and immunostained for tubulin (monoclonal DM1A, Sigma, with Alexa 488 conjugated secondary, Molecular Probes, excitation, 494, emission, 519) and rhodamine-conjugated phalloidin (Molecular Probes, excitation, 540, emission, 565). Images were acquired with a Leica DMRA microscope with a mercury arc lamp, a 40X lens (HCX PL Fluotar, NA 0.75), Leica GFP filter set (excitation, BP 470/40; dichromatic mirror, 500, suppression filter, BP 525/50); Leica N3 filter set (excitation, BP546/12; dichromatic mirror, 565, suppression filter, BP 600/40), Photometrics CoolSnap ES CCD camera and MetaMorph software. Merged image was generated with the MetaMorph color combine function.

• 2021

• Brandner, Dieter
• Withers, Ginger

Preparation: formaldehyde fixed tissue; detergent permeabilized
Relation to intact cell: dispersed cells in vitro
Item type: recorded image
Imaging mode: fluorescence microscopy
Parameter imaged: fluorescence emission
Source of contrast: distribution of epitope; differences in adsorption or binding of stain
Visualization methods: phalloidin; primary antibody plus labeled secondary antibody
Processing history: unprocessed raw data

• Cell Image Library Group ID: 7785

• Rattus

• Actin cytoskeleton
• Axon
• Axonal growth cone
• Cytoskeleton
• Dendrite
• Dendritic growth cone
• Filopodium
• Lamellipodium
• Microtubule cytoskeleton
• Multipolar neuron

• Dendrite development
• Developmental process
• Establishment or maintenance of cell polarity

• data
• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Samplenumber: 8778

Doi: https://doi.org/10.6075/J0SB44SH

Source data

• Source Record in the Cell Image Library: https://doi.org/10.7295/W9CIL8778

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