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CIL:9688*  Cite 
Description

Paramecium multimicronucleatum - Video of the Contractile Vacuole Complex. Activity of the two parts of a dissected CV. Division and subsequent fusion of an in vitro CV extruded from a ruptured Paramecium cell. A microneedle is used to pinch the CV into two parts. Both CV parts will undergo rounding and relaxing but these cycles soon go out of phase with each other. When the microneedle is removed the two parts of the CV will again fuse and the single CV will continue to undergo rounding and relaxing. A DVD resolution version of this is available at CIL:10415.

Biological Sources
NCBI Organism Classification
Paramecium multimicronucleatum
Cell Type
eukaryotic cell
Eukaryotic Protist
Ciliated Protist
Cellular Component
contractile vacuole
Biological Context
Biological Process
cellular water homeostasis
Attribution
Names
Tomomi Tani & Richard Allen
Pubmed
10607534
Citation
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
doi:10.7295/W9CIL9688
Archival Resource Key (ARK)
ark:/b7295/w9cil9688
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Sample Preparation
Methods
living tissue
Relation To Intact Cell
isolated subcellular component
Dimensions
Spatial Axis Image Size Pixel Size
X 320px ——
Y 240px ——