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PhagoSight: An Open-Source MATLAB® Package for the Analysis of Fluorescent Neutrophil and Macrophage Migration in a Zebrafish Model

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  • Katherine M Henry
  • Luke Pase
  • Carlos Fernando Ramos-Lopez
  • Graham J Lieschke
  • Stephen A Renshaw
  • Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro

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Neutrophil migration in zebrafish larvae is increasingly used as a model to study the response of these leukocytes to different determinants of the cellular inflammatory response. However, it remains challenging to extract comprehensive information describing the behaviour of neutrophils from the multi-dimensional data sets acquired with widefield or confocal microscopes. Here, we describe PhagoSight, an open-source software package for the segmentation, tracking and visualisation of migrating phagocytes in three dimensions. The algorithms in PhagoSight extract a large number of measurements that summarise the behaviour of neutrophils, but that could potentially be applied to any moving fluorescent cells. To derive a useful panel of variables quantifying aspects of neutrophil migratory behaviour, and to demonstrate the utility of PhagoSight, we evaluated changes in the volume of migrating neutrophils. Cell volume increased as neutrophils migrated towards the wound region of injured zebrafish. PhagoSight is openly available as MATLAB® m-files under the GNU General Public License. Synthetic data sets and a comprehensive user manual are available from http://www.phagosight.org.

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  • Katherine M Henry & Luke Pase & Carlos Fernando Ramos-Lopez & Graham J Lieschke & Stephen A Renshaw & Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro, 2013. "PhagoSight: An Open-Source MATLAB® Package for the Analysis of Fluorescent Neutrophil and Macrophage Migration in a Zebrafish Model," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(8), pages 1-11, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0072636
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072636
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