Association for Biology Laboratory Education

Microsurgery on Protozoa Using Cactus Spines
 

Leland G. Johnson and Franklin G. Johnson

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 1991, Volume 12

Abstract

Gary Schoenwolf has published a method for preparation of cactus-spine microsurgical needles for use in surgical manipulation of chick and frog embryos (Schoenwolf and Watterson, 1989, Laboratory Studies of Chick, Pig, and Frog Embryos, Macmillan). Here we describe an application of cactus-spine needles in the teaching laboratory for study of cell reorganization and regeneration of the giant protozoan, Spirostomum, following microsurgical bisection.

Keywords:  cell reorganization, cell regeneration

Southwest Missouri State University (1990)