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Embryonic Swiss Mouse Fibroblast Cells (3T3 Line)

3T3 Cells

A monolayer culture of Swiss mouse embryo cells was treated with MitoTracker Red CMXRos in medium containing 15 percent Cosmic calf serum, fixed with the same medium containing 3.7 percent paraformaldehyde, permeabilized with 0.2 percent Triton X-100, and then counterstained with SYTOX Green, targeting DNA in the nuclei. Images were recorded with a 60x oil immersion objective using a zoom factor of 3.0 and sequential scanning with the 488-nanometer spectral line of an argon-ion laser, as well as the 633-nanometer line of a red helium-neon laser. During the processing stage, individual image channels were pseudocolored with RGB values corresponding to each of the fluorophore emission spectral profiles.

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