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However, preserving MT ultrastructure, MAP binding, high labeling density, and antibody specificity after fixation protocols is still quite challenging.
Taken together, these findings offer a deeper understanding of how varying PFA concentrations influence the mechanical properties of cells and suggest new avenues for establishing refined cell fixation protocols.
Understanding the detailed process of cell fixation in various states from living cells to completely fixed cells provides an opportunity to optimize cell fixation protocols and to gain useful knowledge about the living cell fixation process.
In this work, we employed Partial Wave Spectroscopic (PWS) Microscopy, a nanoscale sensitive and label-free live cell spectroscopic-imaging technique, to analyze the effects of the fixation process through three commonly used fixation protocols for cells in vitro.
We utilised two different fixation protocols.
Several fixation protocols yielded the same result.
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Second step is to investigate the effectiveness of our fixation protocol.
Overall, the results indicate that our alternative protocol dramatically improves conservation of the nuclear architecture compared to previously reported Plasmodium DNA-FISH protocols and highlights the necessity of carefully choosing the fixation protocol for FISH.
We hypothesized that these inconsistencies might be due to the type of parasite preparation prior to FISH, which commonly involves air-drying, prompting us to develop a new fixation protocol.
While the fixation protocol per se does not cause detectable disruptions in nuclear morphology, it greatly influences the conservation of nuclear shape and size during the most stringent steps of FISH.
The type of fixation used also influences the detection of telomeric clusters, and we show that the new fixation protocol permits improved conservation of the chromosome end cluster perinuclear distribution and higher colocalization indexes for two adjacent chromosome end probes, Rep20 and telomere.
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