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CIL:35451*  Cite 
Description

First cleavage of a live mouse zygote. Clear circles are the nuclei which are in a sea of granule dense yolk. The band around the two cells is the zona pellucida.

Technical Details

Fertilized mouse egg was kept at 37 degrees Celsius in a MatTek coverslip bottom dish on an inverted microscope stage. Imaged using a Leica SP2 AOBS confocal with a 488 nm laser and 10X or 20X objective lens. The pinhole was set to Leica's calculated size for 1 Airy unit, each Z section was scanned in one pass, and the bit depth was 8. Additional information may be found in the Leica generated meta text file attached to the image. Microscopy was performed at the Analytical Imaging Facility of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Biological Sources
NCBI Organism Classification
Mus musculus
Cell Type
early embryonic cell
Cellular Component
yolk
nucleus
cleavage furrow
Attribution
Names
Rosana Leonard
Dustin Grzesik
Citation
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
doi:10.7295/W9CIL35451
Archival Resource Key (ARK)
ark:/b7295/w9cil35451
Grouping This image is part of a group.
Imaging
Image Type
single-spot confocal microscopy
Image Mode
differential interference contrast microscopy
Parameters Imaged
optical path length gradient
Source of Contrast
boundaries between regions with different refractive index
Visualization Methods
visualization of contiguous regions
Processing History
unprocessed raw data
Data Qualifiers
raw, unprocessed data
suitable for spatial measurements
Sample Preparation
Methods
living tissue
Relation To Intact Cell
whole mounted tissue
Dimensions
Spatial Axis Image Size Pixel Size
X 1024px 0.154316µm
Y 1024px 0.154316µm
Z 231px 0.284923µm