“…The latter aspect is likely to be relevant for the rather fragile mouse RBCs. Confocal imaging was performed as previously described [24], in detail we used a multibeam array scanner (Infinity-4, VisiTech Int., Sunderland, UK) with a 491 nm DPSS laser (Calypso, Cobolt, Solna, Sweden). The confocal scanner was attached to an inverted microscope (TE2000-U, Nikon, Tokyo, Japan) utilising a 60x objective.…”