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Bovine Pulmonary Artery Endothelial Cells (BPAE Line)

BPAE Cells

The culture of BPAE cells presented in this confocal image was labeled for mitochondria with MitoTracker Red CMXRos and for the cytoskeletal filamentous actin network with Alexa Fluor 488 conjugated to phalloidin, a cyclic peptide derived from the toxic death cap mushroom (Amanita phalloides). In addition, the cells were probed for nuclear DNA with TO-PRO-3 (pseudocolored cyan), a monomeric cyanine nucleic acid stain. Images were recorded with a 60x oil immersion objective using a zoom factor of 2.5 and sequential scanning with the 488-nanometer spectral line of an argon-ion laser, the 543-nanometer line from a green helium-neon laser, and 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 unless otherwise noted above.

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