1 My work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof. Antony van Leeuwenhoek. Letter of June 12, 1716
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My work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a
craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious
people might be informed thereof. Antony van Leeuwenhoek. Letter of June 12, 1716
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MICROSCOPYA Brief Overview
Dr SANTOSH KARADE
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• INTRODUCTION• DEFINITION• HISTORICAL BACKGROUND• VARIBLES USED IN MICROSCOPY• COMPOUND MICROSCOPE - Structure and
Function• USE OF MICROSCOPE• VARIOUS TYPES OF MICROSCOPES• CARE OF MICROSCOPE
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INTRODUCTION TO MICROSCOPY
• Understanding the optical principles and construction of microscopes
• Role of microscopy
• Microscopic techniques and application
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DEFINITION
• A microscope (Greek: micron = small and scopos = aim)
• MICROSCOPE - An instrument for viewing objects that are too small to be seen by the naked or unaided eye
• MICROSCOPY - The science of investigating small objects using such an instrument is called microscopy
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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
• 1590 - Hans Janssen and his son Zacharias Janssen, developed first microscope.
• 1609 - Galileo Galilei - occhiolino or compound microscope.
• 1620 - Christian Huygens, another Dutchman, developed a simple 2-lens ocular system that was chromatically corrected.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek(1632-1723)
• Anton van Leeuwenhoek is generally credited with bringing the microscope to the attention of biologists.
• A tradesman of Delft, Holland.
16611661 - He discovered bacteria, free-living - He discovered bacteria, free-living and parasitic microscopic protists, sperm and parasitic microscopic protists, sperm cells, blood cells, microscopic nematodes cells, blood cells, microscopic nematodes etc.etc.
Multiple step operation employed to attain optimal illumination:
1. Remove any diffusing filter. 2. Put a slide on the stage and focus. 3. Completely close the field diaphragm . 4. Move the condenser until the border or the iris hexagon is neat and clear. 5. Center if necessary. 6. Open the field diaphragm until the tip of the hexagon touches the field limit
KOHLER’S ILLUMINATION
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HOW A MICROSCOPE WORKS ?
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OPTICAL PATH IN COMPOUND MICROSCOPE
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METHOD OF USING COMPOUND MICROSCOPE
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1. Grasp the microscopes arm with one hand and place your other hand under the base.
2. Place the microscope on a bench. Adjust seat
3. Clean Lenses.
4. Turn the coarse adjustment knob to raise the body tube
5. Revolve the nose piece to set low-power objective lens.
6. Adjust the Condenser lenses and diaphragm .
7. Place a slide on the stage and secure with stage clips.
8. Switch on the light at low intensity and then increase intensity.
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9. Turn the coarse adjustment knob to lower the body tube until the low power objective reaches its lowest point.
10. Looking through the eyepiece, very slowly move the coarse adjustment knob until the specimen comes into focus.
11. Adjust distance between eye piece.
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12. Switch to the high power objective lens only after adjusting condenser and iris diaphragm.
13. Place a drop of oil over specimen before using oil immersion objective.
14. Lower the objective until oil makes contact with objective.
15. Looking through the eyepiece, very slowly focus the objective away from the slide i.e by raising the objective lens.
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HOW TO OBSERVE A SLIDE ?
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CAUSES OF ERROR IN FOCUSING
• Revolving Nose Piece is off centre
• Preparation is upside down
• Thick cover slip
• Dirt or Dried oil over Lens
• Air bubble in immersion oil
• Poor illumination – Condenser not fully racked up
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PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPE
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PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPE
• First described in 1934 by Dutch physicist Frits Zernike
• Produces high-contrast images of transparent specimens
• Advantage - Living cells can be examined in their natural state
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PRINCIPLE OF PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY
• Unstained bacteria have constituents of different refractive index .
• Diffraction of light
• Phase contrast microscope employs an optical mechanism to translate minute variations in phase into corresponding changes in intensity of image.
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REQUISITE FOR PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY
• ANNULAR DIAPHRAGM
• PHASE PLATE
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CONDENSER ANNULUS
• The condenser annulus or annular diaphragm is opaque flat-black (light absorbing) plate with a transparent annular ring.
• Produces hollow cone of light.
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Condenser annulus
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PHASE PLATE
• Placed in back focal plane of objective. • FUNCTION :-
1. Enhances phase difference by retarding diffracted wave front by one quarter of wavelength .
2. Reduces intensity of direct rays and equalizes it with diffracted rays intensity.
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Phase plate
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IMAGES OF PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCPY
Clostridium botulinumSpirilium volutans
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COMPARISION OF IMAGES OF BRIGHT FIELD AND PHASE CONTRAST
MICROSCOPY
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USES OF PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY
• Phase contrast enables visualization of internal cellular components.
• Diagnosis of tumor cells .
• Examination of growth, dynamics, and behavior of a wide variety of living cells in cell culture
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DARK GROUND MICROSCOPE
• Optical system to enhance the contrast of unstained bodies .
• Specimen appears gleaming bright against dark background
• PRINCIPLE OF DGI
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OPTICAL PATH IN DARK GROUND MICROSCOPY
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REQUISITES FOR DARK GROUND MICROSCOPY
• Dark ground condenser
• High intensity lamp
• Funnel stop
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USES OF DARK GROUND MICROSCOPY
Treponema pallidum
• Useful in demonstrating
-Treponema pallidum
- Leptospira
- Campylobacter jejuni
- Endospore
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FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY
• PRINCIPLE
UV lightUV light
FluorochromeFluorochrome
VisibleVisibleradiationradiation
FITC EX - 495 nm EM - 520nm
TRITC EX – 540 nm EM – 590 nm
Texas Red Ex – 600 nm EM – 615 nm
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• UV rays passes through exciter filter
• Dark ground condenser
• Micro organisms stained with fluorescent dye, when examined under microscope with ultraviolet light are seen as bright object against dark background
• Acridine Orange R - gives orange red Fl with RNA and yellow green Fl with DNA
• QBC
• IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE
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ELECTRON MICROSCOPE
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ELECTRON MICROSCOPE
• Electron Microscopes uses a beam of highly energetic electrons to examine objects on a very fine scale. This examination can yield the info about– Topography– Morphology– Composition– Crystallographic structure
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TYPES OF EM
• Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM)
• Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
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TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE (TEM)
• Stream of electrons is formed
• Accelerated using a positive electrical potential
• Focused by metallic aperture and Electro magnets
• Interactions occur inside the irradiated sample which are detected and transformed into an image .
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TEM (Cont)
• Projector Lens forms image on Fluorescent viewing screen
• 2D Image
• Magnification
10,000 X to 100,000 X
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• Scan a gold-plated specimen to give a 3-D view of the surface of an object which is black and white.
• Used to study surface features of cells and viruses.
• Scanning Electron microscope has resolution 1000 times better than Light microscope .
SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE
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WORKING OF SEM
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SEM IMAGES
Vibrio cholerae with polar flagellaTreponema pallidum
• Observing cellular morphology in multilayered specimen
• Eg. used in diagnosing Ca cervix
• Evaluation and diagnosis of basal cell carcinoma of skin
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What is the advantage of using a confocal microscope?
• By having a confocal pinhole, the microscope is really efficient at rejecting out of focus fluorescent light so that very thin section of a sample can be analyzed.
• By scanning many thin sections through a sample, one can build up a very clean three-dimensional image .
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NEWER MICROSCOPE
• SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPE -Class of Microscope that measures surface features by moving a sharp probe over object surface. Used to visualize atoms and molecules