PUBLICATION

Time-lapse microscopy of brain development

Authors
Köster, R.W., and Fraser, S.E.
ID
ZDB-PUB-050128-10
Date
2004
Source
The Zebrafish: Cellular and Developmental Biology,2nd Ed. Methods Cell Biol.   76: 207-235 (Chapter)
Registered Authors
Fraser, Scott E., Köster, Reinhard W.
Keywords
none
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Animals, Genetically Modified
  • Brain/embryology*
  • Fluorescent Dyes/chemistry
  • Green Fluorescent Proteins/genetics
  • Green Fluorescent Proteins/metabolism
  • Histocytological Preparation Techniques/methods
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted/methods
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional/methods
  • Luminescent Proteins/genetics
  • Luminescent Proteins/metabolism
  • Methylcellulose/chemistry
  • Microscopy, Confocal/instrumentation
  • Microscopy, Confocal/methods
  • Microscopy, Fluorescence/instrumentation
  • Microscopy, Fluorescence/methods
  • Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics
  • Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
  • Sepharose/chemistry
  • Staining and Labeling/methods
  • Zebrafish/embryology*
  • Zebrafish/genetics
PubMed
15602878 Full text @ The Zebrafish: Cellular and Developmental Biology,2nd Ed. Methods Cell Biol.
Abstract
Zebrafish embryos represent an ideal vertebrate model organism for noninvasive intravital imaging because of their optical clarity, external embryogenesis, and fast development. Many different labeling techniques have been adopted from other model organisms or newly developed to address a wealth of different developmental questions directly inside the living organism. The parallel advancements in the field of optical imaging let us now observe dynamic processes at the cellular and subcellular resolution. Combined with the repertoire of available surgical and genetic manipulations, zebrafish embryos provide the powerful and almost unique possibility to observe the interplay of molecular signals with cellular, morphological, and behavioral changes directly within a living and developing vertebrate organism. A bright future for zebrafish is yet to come, let there be light.
Genes / Markers
Figures
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Antibodies
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping