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Comparing phototoxicity during the development of a zebrafish craniofacial bone using confocal and light sheet fluorescence microscopy techniques
Author(s) -
Jemielita Matthew,
Taormina Michael J.,
DeLaurier April,
Kimmel Charles B.,
Parthasarathy Raghuveer
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of biophotonics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.877
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1864-0648
pISSN - 1864-063X
DOI - 10.1002/jbio.201200144
Subject(s) - light sheet fluorescence microscopy , confocal , fluorescence , confocal microscopy , microscopy , fluorescence microscope , two photon excitation microscopy , optics , biophysics , zebrafish , biomedical engineering , optical sectioning , craniofacial , fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy , live cell imaging , materials science , biology , cell , physics , medicine , biochemistry , gene , genetics
The combination of genetically encoded fluorescent proteins and three‐dimensional imaging enables cell‐type‐specific studies of embryogenesis. Light sheet microscopy, in which fluorescence excitation is provided by a plane of laser light, is an appealing approach to live imaging due to its high speed and efficient use of photons. While the advantages of rapid imaging are apparent from recent work, the importance of low light levels to studies of development is not well established. We examine the zebrafish opercle, a craniofacial bone that exhibits pronounced shape changes at early developmental stages, using both spinning disk confocal and light sheet microscopies of fluorescent osteoblast cells. We find normal and aberrant opercle morphologies for specimens imaged with short time intervals using light sheet and spinning disk confocal microscopies, respectively, under equivalent exposure conditions over developmentally‐relevant time scales. Quantification of shapes reveals that the differently imaged specimens travel along distinct trajectories in morphological space. (© 2013 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)