Course Reader

Cellular Communication

• Immunofluorescence Labeling of ER
  
• Relative Sizes
  
• Virtual Cell
  
• Crystal model of lipid bilayer
  
• Fluid Model of lipid bilayer
  
• Membrane Structure Tutorial
  
• How the Calcium Pump Fills the SER with Calcium (double feature with movie above)
  
• Movie of Calcium Influx into a Neuron
  
• Sea urchin sperm competing to fuse with egg (2.2 Mb movie)
  
• Mechanism for IP₃ production and Ca²⁺ ion wave (Flash Animation)
  
• Movie of Calcium During Fertilization (sea urchin)
  
• Movie of sea urchin fertilization (by J. Hoekstra, '05 -see the fertilization envelope rise)
  
• Movie of IP3 injection into an unfertilized sea urchin egg (see the fertilization envelope rise without sperm)
  

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