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Article Dans Une Revue Cold Spring Harbor protocols Année : 2011

Imaging of Fixed Ciona Embryos for Creating 3D Digital Replicas

Delphine Dauga
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Olivier Tassy
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Daniel Sobral
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Fabrice Daian
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Patrick Lemaire
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During embryonic development, cell behaviors that are tightly coordinated both spatially and temporally integrate at the tissue level and drive embryonic morphogenesis. Over the past 20 years, advances in imaging techniques, in particular, the development of confocal imaging, have opened a new world in biology, not only giving us access to a wealth of information, but also creating new challenges. It is sometimes difficult to make the best use of the recordings of the complex, inherently three-dimensional (3D) processes we now can observe. In particular, these data are often not directly suitable for even simple but conceptually fundamental quantifications. This article presents a method for imaging embryonic development with cellular resolution in fixed ascidian embryos. A large fraction of the ascidian community primarily studies the development of the cosmopolitan ascidian Ciona intestinalis . Because the embryos of this species are insufficiently transparent and show significant autofluorescence, live imaging is difficult. Thus, whole embryos are fixed and optically cleared. They are then stained and imaged on a regular or two-photon confocal microscope. The resulting image stacks can subsequently be digitalized and segmented to produce 3D embryo replicas that can be interfaced to a model organism database and used to quantify cell shapes.
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hal-03988986 , version 1 (14-02-2023)

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François Robin, Delphine Dauga, Olivier Tassy, Daniel Sobral, Fabrice Daian, et al.. Imaging of Fixed Ciona Embryos for Creating 3D Digital Replicas. Cold Spring Harbor protocols, 2011, 2011 (10), pdb.prot065854. ⟨10.1101/pdb.prot065854⟩. ⟨hal-03988986⟩
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