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Selective plane illumination microscopy techniques in developmental biologyJan Huisken
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, and Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
Development 136:1963-75. 2009....
Even fluorescence excitation by multidirectional selective plane illumination microscopy (mSPIM)Jan Huisken
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, 1550 Fourth Street, San Francisco, California 94158 2324, USA
Opt Lett 32:2608-10. 2007..The multidirectional illumination proves essential in biological specimens such as millimeter-sized embryos. The performance of mSPIM is demonstrated by the imaging of live zebrafish embryos...
Optogenetic control of cardiac functionAristides B Arrenberg
Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
Science 330:971-4. 2010..Our studies combine optogenetics and light-sheet microscopy to reveal the emergence of organ function during development...
Genetic and physiologic dissection of the vertebrate cardiac conduction systemNeil C Chi
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Programs in Developmental Biology, Genetics, and Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
PLoS Biol 6:e109. 2008....
Regulation of neurocoel morphogenesis by Pard6 gamma bChantilly Munson
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Genetics and Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
Dev Biol 324:41-54. 2008..Altogether, these data indicate a previously unappreciated functional diversity and complexity within the vertebrate pard6 gene family...
A dual role for ErbB2 signaling in cardiac trabeculationJiandong Liu
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
Development 137:3867-75. 2010....
Arterial-venous segregation by selective cell sprouting: an alternative mode of blood vessel formationShane P Herbert
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Programs in Developmental Biology, Genetics and Human Genetics, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
Science 326:294-8. 2009..Thus, directional control of progenitor migration drives arterial-venous segregation and generation of separate parallel vessels from a single precursor vessel, a process essential for vascular development...
The extracellular domain of Smoothened regulates ciliary localization and is required for high-level Hh signalingPia Aanstad
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Programs in Developmental Biology, Genetics, and Human Genetics, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
Curr Biol 19:1034-9. 2009..These data indicate that the ECD, previously thought to be dispensable for vertebrate Smo function, both regulates Smo ciliary localization and is essential for high-level Hh signaling...
Multiple roles for Med12 in vertebrate endoderm developmentChong Hyun Shin
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Liver Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
Dev Biol 317:467-79. 2008....
Genetic evidence for a noncanonical function of seryl-tRNA synthetase in vascular developmentWiebke Herzog
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and The Cardiovascular Research Institute, Programs in Developmental Biology, Genetics, and Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
Circ Res 104:1260-6. 2009..These analyses of zebrafish and human endothelial cells reveal a new noncanonical function of Sars in endothelial development...
Fibrillin-2b regulates endocardial morphogenesis in zebrafishKatharine Mellman
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Programs in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Genetics and Human Genetics, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, 1550 4th St, Room 384, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
Dev Biol 372:111-9. 2012..Integrating data obtained from microscopy and molecular biology, we posit that this mutation impacts the rigidity of Fbn2b, imparting a structural defect that weakens endocardial adhesion thereby resulting in perforated endocardium...
High-speed imaging of developing heart valves reveals interplay of morphogenesis and functionPaul J Scherz
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
Development 135:1179-87. 2008..Thus, different signaling pathways regulate distinct aspects of the behavior of individual cells during valve morphogenesis, thereby influencing specific facets of valve function...
Zebrafish model for human long QT syndromeRima Arnaout
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Programs in Developmental Biology, Genetics, and Human Genetics, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, 1550 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:11316-21. 2007..Our findings provide insight into the pathogenesis of homozygous kcnh2 mutations and expand the use of zebrafish mutants as a model system to study human arrhythmias...
Optical sectioning deep inside live embryos by selective plane illumination microscopyJan Huisken
European Molecular Biology Laboratory EMBL, Meyerhofstrasse 1, D 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Science 305:1007-9. 2004..We also demonstrate that SPIM can be applied to visualize the embryogenesis of the relatively opaque Drosophila melanogaster in vivo...
Optical scanning holography as a technique for high-resolution three-dimensional biological microscopyJim Swoger
Light Microscopy Group, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis 19:1910-8. 2002..It is also shown that, although in general OSH is restricted to thin samples, this condition can be relaxed in nonrefracting fluorescence samples, which are of importance in biological microscopy...
Multiple imaging axis microscopy improves resolution for thick-sample applicationsJim Swoger
Cell Biology and Biophysics Programme, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, D 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Opt Lett 28:1654-6. 2003..Compared with a single-axis system, the MIAM can achieve a reduction of the axial point-spread function elongation by a factor of 5.8 and a 3.5-fold improvement in volume resolution by simple linear image combination techniques...
