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To watch this movie please click "View in Google Picassa" above. Courtesy of Mr Ulrich Leischner at Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany - Formalin-induced fluorescence causes a weak and fast fading intrinsic signal, that allows for displaying the shape of cells in biological tissue samples. This signal was often missed because of its weakness and fast fading when recoded with confocal microscopy. The illumination technique Ultramicroscopy can capture this signal, as it illuminates only the section of the sample that is actually imaged. Additionally, as a bright-field technique, it captures all fluorescence coming from the probe. However, the signal is still weak and requires a high-sensitivity camera, such as Andor cameras with em-gain. Image data from a mouse hippocampus CA1. (for details see Leischner et al., PLoS ONE, 2010)
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