[Zbrafish] needle calibration

[Jon D.Moulton]

Regarding the question:
"Hi, I just started to do microinjection. I am wondering how to 
calibrate the needles so that I know the amount I am injecting."

See the supporting online material 
<http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/data/1142538/DC1/1> of the following 
citation for *methods for characterizing microinjected volume* per embryo.
Riedel-Kruse IH, Muller C, Oates AC. Synchrony dynamics during 
initiation, failure, and rescue of the segmentation clock. 
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17702912> 
Science. 2007 Sep 28;317(5846):1911-5. Epub 2007 Aug 16.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17702912
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/data/1142538/DC1/1

Best regards,

  - Jon

     Jon D. Moulton, Ph.D.
     Diagnostics and Special Projects
     GENE TOOLS, LLC
     jmoulton from gene-tools.com
     http://network.nature.com/group/morpholinos

yang.x from neu.edu wrote:
> Hi, I just started to do microinjection. I am wondering how to
> calibrate the needles so that I know the amount I am injecting. Thanks
> a lot!
>
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