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Description

Confocal image of a sea squirt heart. The sea squirt heart is a tube made of a single layer of muscle cells. The contractile elements are the long striations stained red and the nuclei are also red. The green spots indicate gap junctions between the cells, which facilitate the conduction of electrical impulses through the heart, thus coordinating its contraction.

Technical Details

B0000108 Sea squirt heart tube. Wellcome Images available under the following creative commons usage http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/

Biological Sources

NCBI Organism Classification: Ascidiacea
Cell Type: muscle cell
Cellular Component: gap junction; contractile fiber; nucleus

Biological Context

Biological Process: muscle contraction

Attribution

Names: David Becker
Link: Wellcome Images

Citation

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): doi:10.7295/W9CIL39011
Archival Resource Key (ARK): ark:/b7295/w9cil39011

Imaging

Image Type: recorded image
Image Mode: confocal microscopy
Parameters Imaged: fluorescence emission
Source of Contrast: distribution of epitope
Visualization Methods: primary antibody plus labeled secondary antibody
Processing History: unprocessed raw data

Dimensions

Spatial Axis	Image Size	Pixel Size
X	701px	——
Y	576px	——