Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR)

1 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Biology

Simple and Effective Administration and Visualization of Microparticles in the Circulatory System of Small Fishes Using Kidney Injection

Ekaterina Borvinskaya^1,2, Anton Gurkov^1,3, Ekaterina Shchapova¹, Dmitry Karnaukhov¹, Anton Sadovoy⁴, Igor Meglinski^1,5, Maxim Timofeyev¹

¹Institute of Biology at Irkutsk State University, ²Institute of Biology at Karelian Research Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences, ³Baikal Research Centre, ⁴Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), ⁵University of Oulu, Optoelectronics and Measurement Techniques Laboratory

This article demonstrates the principles of a quick, minimally invasive injection of fluorescent microparticles into the circulatory system of small fishes and the in vivo visualization of the microparticles in fish blood.