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Indian Muntjac Deer Skin Fibroblast Cells

Indian Muntjac Deer Skin Fibroblast Cells

In a double immunofluorescence labeling experiment, a culture of Indian Muntjac fibroblasts was treated with a cocktail of mouse anti-histones (pan) and rabbit anti-PMP 70 (peroxisomal membrane protein) primary antibodies, followed by goat anti-mouse and anti-rabbit secondary antibodies conjugated to Alexa Fluor 568 and Alexa Fluor 488, respectively, to target the nuclear histone proteins and peroxisomes. The actin cytoskeleton was visualized with Alexa Fluor 633 conjugated to phalloidin. Images were recorded on a FluoView FV1000 with a 60x oil immersion objective using a zoom factor of 2.5 and sequential scanning with the 488-nanometer spectral line of an argon-ion laser, the 543-nanometer line from a green helium-neon laser, and the 633-nanometer line of a red helium-neon laser. During the processing stage, the image channels were pseudocolored with RGB values corresponding to each of the fluorophore emission spectral profiles, with the exception of Alexa Fluor 633, which was pseudocolored blue.

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