Zebrafish adhesion

Force curve for the investigation of the adhesion between a living primary cell from Zebrafish embryo glued onto the cantilever and a substrate coated with extracellular matrix material after a contact time of 10s.

Sample courtesy Dr. P.H. Puech & A. Taubenberger (Biotec, Dresden), F. Ulrich & C.P. Heisenberg (MPI-CBG, Dresden)

See these articles for further information:

P.-H. Puech, A. Taubenberger, F. Ulrich, M. Krieg, D.J. Muller, C.-P. Heisenberg "Measuring cell adhesion forces of primary gastrulating cells from zebrafish using atomic force microscopy", J. Cell Sci. 118: 4199-4206 (2005)

F. Ulrich, M. Krieg, E.-M.Schötz, V. Link, I. Castanon, V. Schnabel, A. Taubenberger, D. Mueller, P.-H. Puech, C.-P. Heisenberg, "Wnt11 Functions in gastrulation by controlling cell cohesion through Rab5c and E-cadherin“, Developmental Cell 9: 555-564 (2005)