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ZWEDGI: Wounding and Entrapment Device for Imaging Live Zebrafish Larvae.

ABSTRACT: Zebrafish, an established model organism in developmental biology, is also a valuable tool for imaging wound healing in space and time with cellular resolution. However, long-term imaging of wound healing poses technical challenges as wound healing occurs over multiple temporal scales. The traditional strategy of larval encapsulation in agarose successfully limits sample movement but impedes larval development and tissue regrowth and is therefore not amenable to long-term imaging of wound healing. To overcome this challenge, we engineered a functionally compartmentalized device, the zebrafish Wounding and Entrapment Device for Growth and Imaging (zWEDGI), to orient larvae for high-resolution microscopy, including confocal and second harmonic generation (SHG), while allowing unrestrained tail development and regrowth. In this device, larval viability was maintained and tail regrowth was improved over embedding in agarose. The quality of tail fiber SHG images collected from larvae in the device was similar to fixed samples but provided the benefit of time lapse data collection. Furthermore, we show that this device was amenable to long-term (>24?h) confocal microscopy of the caudal fin. Finally, the zWEDGI was designed and fabricated using readily available techniques so that it can be easily modified for diverse experimental imaging protocols.

SUBMITTER: Huemer K

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5312606 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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zWEDGI: Wounding and Entrapment Device for Imaging Live Zebrafish Larvae.

Huemer Kayla K Squirrell Jayne M JM Swader Robert R LeBert Danny C DC Huttenlocher Anna A Eliceiri Kevin W KW

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Zebrafish, an established model organism in developmental biology, is also a valuable tool for imaging wound healing in space and time with cellular resolution. However, long-term imaging of wound healing poses technical challenges as wound healing occurs over multiple temporal scales. The traditional strategy of larval encapsulation in agarose successfully limits sample movement but impedes larval development and tissue regrowth and is therefore not amenable to long-term imaging of wound healin ...[more]

PMID: 27676647

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ZWEDGI: Wounding and Entrapment Device for Imaging Live Zebrafish Larvae.

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zWEDGI: Wounding and Entrapment Device for Imaging Live Zebrafish Larvae.

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