[Histonet] Zebrafish histology

Thu Feb 28 11:11:23 CST 2008

microCT-based virtual histology works pretty well for this purpose, too.  Resolution is limited to 1 um.  See this image at http://www.numirabio.com/gallery/fullsize/zebrafish1.PNG as well as others at http://www.numirabio.com/gallery.html .  My disclaimer is that I co-founded the company that does this imaging.  I'd be happy to do it in my academic lab, though, at no cost.  

Charles

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Another technique that we've used to clear fish (in our case medaka) is
to clear into immersion oil but instead of oil with a refractice index
of 1.515 (typical immersion oil) we found much better results using oil
with a refractive index of 1.56.  You can get the oil from Cargille.  To
clear, pass the fish from fixation (aqueous) to methanol then to
propylene oxide then to immersion oil.  I've never tried it with the
skeletal stains.  I can give you a more detailed protocol if interested.

Kevin Flynn
US EPA
Mid-Continent Ecological Division
6201 Congdon Blvd
Duluth MN 55804
218.529.5120

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If you want to able to see the internal organs and the skeleton, why
don't completely make the fish transparent?
  To do that dehydrate in ethanol of increasing strengths, slowly and
after the fish are dehydrated, clear them with cedar wood oil. It will
take some time but you will end with fish completely cleared.
  René J.

"Dickey, Coral" <cad <@t> Stowers-Institute.org> wrote:
  Hello out there,

I am doing double skeletal staining on zebrafish and we run into a
problem with visualization of th skeleton. The scales take up the
alizarin red stain and they are incredibly persistent and don't come off
the fish very well even after weeks in KOH/Glycerin solution. They make
it difficult to see the inside of the fish. The rest of the fish is
quite delicate after this length of time however, posing a challenge to
remove the scales without breaking the fish to pieces!

The first time I performed this stain, I used a plastic pipette to
debride the scales. This was incredibly tedious and time consuming. Does
anyone have experience with this or even have a good idea?

Any suggestions appreciated!
Thanks in advance,

Coral Dickey
Histology Specialist I

Stowers Institute for Medical Research
1000 E. 50th Street
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
Phone: 816-926-4305
e-mail: cad <@t> stowers-institute.org

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