Manual pipette pump, 10 mL (Bel-Art Products, Pequannock, NJ).
E3 embryo medium: 5 mM NaCl, 0.17 mM KCl, 0.33 mM CaCl2 , 0.33 mM MgSO4 , containing 0.003% PTU (phenylthio-carbamide, Sigma; St. Louis, MO). PTU can be prepared as a 10x solution by dissolving 0.3-g PTU in 1 L of E3 embryo media. Solutions containing PTU should be protected from light by covering with aluminum foil.
12-channel pipettes, 2-20 μL (Eppendorf).
12-channel pipettes, 3-300 μL (Eppendorf).
Disposable polystyrene pipette basin, 50 mL (Fisher Scientific).
Small molecule library of structurally diverse compounds arrayed in a 96-wll format at 10 mM stock in DMSO. Each master plate is aliquoted into 96-well polypropylene storage plates (Corning), and stored at -80°C until use.
Aluminum sealing tape for 96-well plates (Nunc, Rochester, NY).
DMSO (Sigma, St. Louis, MO).
Basic incubator, 28.5°C (Fisher Scientific).
Stereomicroscope with transmitted light base (Leica Microsystems, Bannockburn, IL).
Hao, J., Williams, C. H., Webb, M. E., Hong, C. C. Large Scale Zebrafish-Based In vivo Small Molecule Screen. J. Vis. Exp. (46), e2243, doi:10.3791/2243 (2010).