White blood cell phagocytizing bacteria video

curt0909 · Post by **curt0909** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 5:58 am

I mixed a scraping of epithelial buccal cells and a drop of blood on the slide. The large amount of bacteria keeps the leukocytes very busy. Its fun to watch. The video is increased 5x normal speed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvGVoxdy ... ature=plcp

arturoag75 · Post by **arturoag75** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 11:36 am

Very nice video and grat subjects

arturo

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:59 pm

Excellent! I have not seen this before.

--Rik

Chris_M · Post by **Chris_M** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 1:21 pm

Very interesting!

Cactusdave · Post by **Cactusdave** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 2:15 pm

Nicely done. The video is very clear.

discomorphella · Post by **discomorphella** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 2:53 pm

Brilliant. I have seen confocal video of similar processes, but not from an amateur. I think you have your cell described correctly, although the nucleus appears more "monocyte" like in some of the video, there are clear fine divisions in between the segments, more like a neutrophil than a monocyte, and the granules are fairly pronounced. Now you can start selectively fluorescent staining the various vacuoles in the leucocytes and watching them kill off the bacteria.
Great video.

David

curt0909 · Post by **curt0909** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:36 am

Thanks for the comments. Discomorphella, I saw the same thing. In the beginning of the video it is hard to tell that it is a neutrophil... Any fluorescence will have to wait until I get some decent equipment that is fluorescence capable. Hopefully in the near future.