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High resolution short time-lapse of developing nephrons. Intact E12.5 kidneys of mT/mG; Wn4Cre embryos were set up in FiZD culture. Images were taken every 5 minutes for 20 time points. A stack of 53 Z-layers was acquired and a single optical plane is represented. A 25x/0.8 Zeiss LCI Plan-Neofluar water immersion objective was used. Voxel size 0.17x0.17x1.13 µm.

Novel fixed z-direction (FiZD) kidney primordia and an organoid culture system for time-lapse confocal imaging

Ulla Saarela, Saad Ullah Akram, Audrey Desgrange, Aleksandra Rak-Raszewska, Jingdong Shan, Silvia Cereghini, Veli-Pekka Ronkainen, Janne Heikkilä, Ilya Skovorodkin, and Seppo J. Vainio

Development 2017. 144:1113-1117; doi: 10.1242/dev.142950