Computational analysis of the spatial distribution of mitotic spindle angles in mouse developing airway

Nan Tang; Wallace F. Marshall

doi:10.1117/12.2002240

26 March 2013 Computational analysis of the spatial distribution of mitotic spindle angles in mouse developing airway

Nan Tang, Wallace F. Marshall

Proceedings Volume 8593, Optical Methods in Developmental Biology; 85930N (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2002240
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2013, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Investigating the spatial information of cellular processes in tissues during mouse embryo development is one of the major technical challenges in development biology. Many imaging methods are still limited to the volumes of tissue due to tissue opacity, light scattering and the availability of advanced imaging tools. For analyzing the mitotic spindle angle distribution in developing mouse airway epithelium, we determined spindle angles in mitotic epithelial cells on serial sections of whole airway of mouse embryonic lungs. We then developed a computational image analysis to obtain spindle angle distribution in three dimensional airway reconstructed from the data obtained from all serial sections. From this study, we were able to understand how mitotic spindle angles are distributed in a whole airway tube. This analysis provides a potentially fast, simple and inexpensive alternative method to quantitatively analyze cellular process at subcellular resolution. Furthermore, this analysis is not limited to the size of tissues, which allows to obtain three dimensional and high resolution information of cellular processes in cell populations deeper inside intact organs.

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Nan Tang and Wallace F. Marshall "Computational analysis of the spatial distribution of mitotic spindle angles in mouse developing airway ", Proc. SPIE 8593, Optical Methods in Developmental Biology, 85930N (26 March 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2002240

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Spindles

Tissues

Lung

Tissue optics

Cell mechanics

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Confocal microscopy

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