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Indian Muntjac Deer Skin Fibroblast Cells

Indian Muntjac Deer Skin Fibroblast Cells

An adherent culture of Indian Muntjac deer skin fibroblast cells was fixed, permeabilized, blocked, and then treated with mouse primary antibodies that target alpha-tubulin, a major component of the microtubule network. The primaries were labeled with goat anti-mouse secondary antibodies conjugated to Alexa Fluor 488 in a solution containing TO-PRO-3 to simultaneously stain DNA. Images were recorded on a FluoView FV1000 with a 60x oil immersion objective using a zoom factor of 2.0 and sequential scanning with the 488-nanometer spectral line of an argon-ion laser and the 633-nanometer line of a red helium-neon laser. During the processing stage, the Alexa Fluor image channel was pseudocolored green and the TO-PRO-3 channel was pseudocolored red.

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