Treating breast cancer cells with taxol
Saturday, August 15th, 2009 at
9:29 am
Live cell imaging of breast cancer cells being killed by the chemotherapy drug taxol. Cells are expressing GFP:tubulin. Cells were imaged at 20X with a spinning disc confocal microscope. Images taken by the Marcus Laboratory at the Emory Winship Cancer Institute … breast cancer chemotherapy taxol paclitaxel microtubule treatment taxotere
Could explain what’s going on here?
Breast cancers cells are being treated with the popular anti-mitotic agent paclitaxel, which inhibits breast cancer cell division. So you are visualizing breast cancer cells unable to undergo mitosis (cell division) and form abnormal mitotic spindles (bright regions in rounded cells). Over time the cells continue to round up and eventually die (apoptosis). Hope this helps.
this is amazing
And whats even more amazing is Taxotere can leave you permanantly bald !