I don't get to see a dividing immune cell often so being able to capture this is so cool to me. Apparently, mitosis can be light sensitive, so that might explain why every time I tried to image them with a confocal, they either didn't divide or just stopped and reversed back.

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Mara Duncan · 1 · 16h ago
Do you have references for the light sensitivity of mitosis? I’m quite curious about it.
Not anything official, but I do have some movies where the cell looks like its about to split, and then never split.
Mara Duncan · 1 · 16h ago
Looks like this has been observed before, antioxidants can help. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Yes, it has. I also remember someone told me about this before too that there is a certain specific difficulty when fluorescence image mitotic cells.