PUBLICATION
Light Sheet Microscopy of Fast Cardiac Dynamics in Zebrafish Embryos
- Authors
- Schlaeppi, A., Graves, A., Weber, M., Huisken, J.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-210831-13
- Date
- 2021
- Source
- Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE (174): (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Heart*
- Intravital Microscopy
- Microscopy, Fluorescence
- Zebrafish*
- PubMed
- 34459808 Full text @ J. Vis. Exp.
Citation
Schlaeppi, A., Graves, A., Weber, M., Huisken, J. (2021) Light Sheet Microscopy of Fast Cardiac Dynamics in Zebrafish Embryos. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE. (174):.
Abstract
Embryonic cardiac research has greatly benefited from advances in fast in vivo light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM). Combined with the rapid external development, tractable genetics, and translucency of the zebrafish, Danio rerio, LSFM has delivered insights into cardiac form and function at high spatial and temporal resolution without significant phototoxicity or photobleaching. Imaging of beating hearts challenges existing sample preparation and microscopy techniques. One needs to maintain a healthy sample in a constricted field of view and acquire ultrafast images to resolve the heartbeat. Here we describe optimized tools and solutions to study the zebrafish heart in vivo. We demonstrate the applications of bright transgenic lines for labeling the cardiac constituents and present novel gentle embedding and immobilization techniques that avoid developmental defects and changes in heart rate. We also propose a data acquisition and analysis pipeline adapted to cardiac imaging. The entire workflow presented here focuses on zebrafish embryonic heart imaging but can also be applied to various other samples and experiments.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping