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Finally, I found a protocol that works pretty well for preserving swimming form of Stentor for immunohistochemistry - maybe with some tweaking I'll get a fully extended one. From Huang & Pitelka (J. of Cell Biol. 1973, Vol. 57): "Cells in the extended state were obtained (...) by treatment before fixation with a solution containing 10 mM EGTA, 50-80 mM Tris, 3 mM MgSO4, 7.5 mM NH4Cl, 10 mM phosphate buffer (pH 7.1)".

Staining - anti-acetylated tubulin mAbs (cilia - red);
DAPI (DNA - blue);
I also used actin marker Alexa 488-phalloidin, but's it's known to fail to recognize protozoan F-actin - the green channel is mostly a combination of bleed-through signals for both blue and red channels and some autofluorescence.

The first image (a compilation of 7 individual scans) shows stentors fixed with formaldehyde only - cells collapse a bit due to osmotic stress, some rupture, but the signal from surface cilia is strong. The second image - I used just a dash of glutaraldehyde - the preservation of the cell shape is better, but I feel that glutaraldehyde messes up with the exposed epitopes in surface cilia, judging from weaker signal. The bases of cilia still stain fine.

Zeiss LSM 880, 40x NA 1.3.

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:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: WONDER !

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Stentor

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Amazing!

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Wow! Great professional work and amazing images. This is Nikon Small World material. Igor, have you sent them for an image competition?

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Thanks!!
Zzffnn - as a matter of fact, yes - but not exactly those two.

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striking images!
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Stunning images, Igor. Innovating, creative and visually overwhelming.
Hope too see much more :)

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Hi blepharopsis,
This is great.
Exceptional images. Love the last one.

Thanks for sharing :D
Kind Regards
Harald

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Igor,

Wow, amazing images!
The second one was with 40x too?

Rogelio

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What else can I say but excellent.

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Never seen this level of clarity and detail of this fragile species before.

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Truly amazing photos

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Very impressive images of Stentors - I will give the technique a try.

Thanks for sharing.
RB

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Igor, your confocal images are from different plannet ! Fabulous !
Thank you for sharing.

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Marek

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Marvelous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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