Tissue clearing and its applications in neuroscience

HR Ueda, A Ertürk, K Chung, V Gradinaru… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
State-of-the-art tissue-clearing methods provide subcellular-level optical access to intact
tissues from individual organs and even to some entire mammals. When combined with light …

The human body at cellular resolution: the NIH Human Biomolecular Atlas Program

Caltech-UW TMC Cai Long lcai@ caltech. edu 21 b … - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Transformative technologies are enabling the construction of three-dimensional maps of
tissues with unprecedented spatial and molecular resolution. Over the next seven years, the …

The Allen mouse brain common coordinate framework: a 3D reference atlas

Q Wang, SL Ding, Y Li, J Royall, D Feng, P Lesnar… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Recent large-scale collaborations are generating major surveys of cell types and
connections in the mouse brain, collecting large amounts of data across modalities, spatial …

A metabolome atlas of the aging mouse brain

J Ding, J Ji, Z Rabow, T Shen, J Folz… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The mammalian brain relies on neurochemistry to fulfill its functions. Yet, the complexity of
the brain metabolome and its changes during diseases or aging remain poorly understood …

[HTML][HTML] A spatiotemporal organ-wide gene expression and cell atlas of the developing human heart

M Asp, S Giacomello, L Larsson, C Wu, D Fürth, X Qian… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
The process of cardiac morphogenesis in humans is incompletely understood. Its full
characterization requires a deep exploration of the organ-wide orchestration of gene …

Specialized coding of sensory, motor and cognitive variables in VTA dopamine neurons

B Engelhard, J Finkelstein, J Cox, W Fleming, HJ Jang… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
There is increased appreciation that dopamine neurons in the midbrain respond not only to
reward and reward-predicting cues,, but also to other variables such as the distance to …

Construction of a 3D whole organism spatial atlas by joint modelling of multiple slices with deep neural networks

G Wang, J Zhao, Y Yan, Y Wang, AR Wu… - Nature Machine …, 2023 - nature.com
Spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies are revolutionizing the way to explore the spatial
architecture of tissues. Currently, ST data analysis is often restricted to a single two …

Clonal relations in the mouse brain revealed by single-cell and spatial transcriptomics

M Ratz, L von Berlin, L Larsson, M Martin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The mammalian brain contains many specialized cells that develop from a thin sheet of
neuroepithelial progenitor cells. Single-cell transcriptomics revealed hundreds of …

Molecular atlas of the adult mouse brain

C Ortiz, JF Navarro, A Jurek, A Märtin, J Lundeberg… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Brain maps are essential for integrating information and interpreting the structure-function
relationship of circuits and behavior. We aimed to generate a systematic classification of the …

Spatial transcriptomics reveals the distinct organization of mouse prefrontal cortex and neuronal subtypes regulating chronic pain

A Bhattacherjee, C Zhang, BR Watson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is a complex brain region that regulates diverse functions
ranging from cognition, emotion and executive action to even pain processing. To decode …