This protocol describes the fabrication of optical-quality glass surfaces adsorbed with compounds containing long-chain hydrocarbons that can be used to monitor macrophage fusion of living specimens and enables super-resolution microscopy of fixed specimens.
Faust, J. J., Christenson, W., Doudrick, K., Heddleston, J., Chew, T., Lampe, M., Balabiyev, A., Ros, R., Ugarova, T. P. Fabricating Optical-quality Glass Surfaces to Study Macrophage Fusion. J. Vis. Exp. (133), e56866, doi:10.3791/56866 (2018).