Movies - Vesicular Transport Movies Please mail Dr. Langford for permission to use animations or movies for educational purposes. Movies were made using DIC enhanced contrast video microscopy.
Specimens vary but many utilize active axoplasm extruded from the longfin squid giant axon.
This clip is annotated and contains a royalty-free 16 bit stereo soundtrack composed by a member of the Langford lab. The movies above are compressed in a variety of formats to retain as much information as possible. Some versions are annotated and others are silent but contain additional animation footage. An intact axon stained with DiOC6, a fluorescent dye specific for endoplasmic reticulum vesicles. This series of images was made using laser confocal microscopy and shows the extensive filamentous network of the endoplasmic reticulum in the axon.