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ArticleJournal of microscopy2015

Towards the imaging of Weibel-Palade body biogenesis by serial block face-scanning electron microscopy.

M J Mourik, F G A Faas, H Zimmermann, J Eikenboom, A J Koster

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Article in Journal of microscopy, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

M J MourikDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
F G A FaasDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
H ZimmermannCarl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH, Munich, Germany.
J EikenboomDepartment of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Einthoven Laboratory for Experimental Vascular Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
A J KosterDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Leiden University Medical Center · NLCarl Zeiss (Germany) · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Electron microscopy is used in biological research to study the ultrastructure at high resolution to obtain information on specific cellular processes. Serial block face-scanning electron microscopy is a relatively novel electron microscopy imaging technique that allows three-dimensional characterization of the ultrastructure in both tissues and cells by measuring volumes of thousands of cubic micrometres yet at nanometre-scale resolution. In the scanning electron microscope, repeatedly an image is acquired followed by the removal of a thin layer resin embedded biological material by either a microtome or a focused ion beam. In this way, each recorded image contains novel structural information which can be used for three-dimensional analysis. Here, we explore focused ion beam facilitated serial block face-scanning electron microscopy to study the endothelial cell-specific storage organelles, the Weibel-Palade bodies, during their biogenesis at the Golgi apparatus. Weibel-Palade bodies predominantly contain the coagulation protein Von Willebrand factor which is secreted by the cell upon vascular damage. Using focused ion beam facilitated serial block face-scanning electron microscopy we show that the technique has the sensitivity to clearly reveal subcellular details like mitochondrial cristae and small vesicles with a diameter of about 50 nm. Also, we reveal numerous associations between Weibel-Palade bodies and Golgi stacks which became conceivable in large-scale three-dimensional data. We demonstrate that serial block face-scanning electron microscopy is a promising tool that offers an alternative for electron tomography to study subcellular organelle interactions in the context of a complete cell.

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Cells, CulturedElectron Microscope TomographyEndothelial CellsGolgi ApparatusHistocytological Preparation TechniquesHumansImaging, Three-DimensionalMicroscopy, Electron, ScanningMicrotomyOrganelle BiogenesisTissue EmbeddingWeibel-Palade BodiesEndothelial cellsFIBGolgi apparatusSBF-SEMWeibel-Palade body

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PMID25644989
PMCPMC4670698
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