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Normal African Green Monkey Kidney Epithelial Cells (Vero Line)

Vero Cells

The mitochondrial network in the culture of Vero epithelial cells presented in the digital image above was labeled with MitoTracker Red CMXRos (pseudocolored yellow), a derivative of X-rosamine. In addition, the cells were stained with Alexa Fluor 488 conjugated to phalloidin and TO-PRO-3, targeting filamentous actin and nuclear DNA, respectively. 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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