The stomach and pancreas from a 12.5dpc mouse embryo which has the Bagpipe mutation. The 3D shape of ectopically-induced structures can clearly be seen protruding from the developing pancreas. (6.2MB)
This aspect of the mutation was only discovered with the use of OPT.
See: Optical Projection Tomography as a Tool for 3D Microscopy and Gene Expression Studies
This is a bespoke movie and not part of the Standard Imaging Package.
Courtesy of Ulf Ahlgren.
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