The Glue Method
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The Glue Method
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1. Take a clean slide and carefully place a coverslip at one end of it.
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2. Put a small dab of superglue at one corner of the coverslip.
superglue
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3. Locate your Drosophila larva and remove it from the test tube.
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4. Place the larva in a Petri dish and rinse it with a small amount of water to remove any excess food.
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5. Soak up remaining water with the corner of a paper towel or small tissue.
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6. Gently pick up the larva with the tweezers and place it on your slide on the opposite side from
your coverslip.
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• 7. Place your slide under the microscope and adjust the lens on the larva. It should be on its stomach with its back facing upwards. You can distinguish the back from the stomach by the two “racing stripes” or trachea running along it. The stomach is noted by faint horizontal grooves with very fine black hairs.
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trachea
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8. If the larva is facing the incorrect direction, simply turn it the right way by gently flipping it with your tweezers.
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9. With a new set of tweezers used specifically for glue, take a small
dab from the drop at the opposite end of your coverslip. You should only use a fractional amount; just enough to cover the head of your
tweezers. Wiping off your tweezers after this procedure is essential so
that they do not become glued shut.
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10. Under the microscope, double check to make sure the larva is still in the correct position. If it has turned over, see step eight.Now, with the tweezers used to handle larva, pick up the larva and place it gently on the fresh patch of glue. Make sure the black mouth hooks are located near or at the edge of the coverslip and neither they or the brown spiracles come in contact with the glue.
Mouth hooks
Spiracles
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11. Carefully press down on the larva to flatten it out.
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12. Now that the larva is in place, you can administer any substance you wish them to ingest. This is best accomplished if you use a syringe to draw up liquid and place it in
small doses by the larva’s head.
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13. Finally, the heart rate can be observed by counting the number of pulses of the spiracles in one minute.
Spiracles