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 …

Tissue clearing

DS Richardson, W Guan, K Matsumoto, C Pan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Tissue clearing of gross anatomical samples was first described more than a century ago
and has only recently found widespread use in the field of microscopy. This renaissance has …

Capturing cardiogenesis in gastruloids

G Rossi, N Broguiere, M Miyamoto, A Boni, R Guiet… - Cell stem cell, 2021 - cell.com
Organoids are powerful models for studying tissue development, physiology, and disease.
However, current culture systems disrupt the inductive tissue-tissue interactions needed for …

Integration of optogenetics with complementary methodologies in systems neuroscience

CK Kim, A Adhikari, K Deisseroth - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Modern optogenetics can be tuned to evoke activity that corresponds to naturally occurring
local or global activity in timing, magnitude or individual-cell patterning. This outcome has …

Magnetically actuated microrobots as a platform for stem cell transplantation

S Jeon, S Kim, S Ha, S Lee, E Kim, SY Kim, SH Park… - Science Robotics, 2019 - science.org
Magnetic microrobots were developed for three-dimensional culture and the precise delivery
of stem cells in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo. Hippocampal neural stem cells attached to the …

A fully automated high-throughput workflow for 3D-based chemical screening in human midbrain organoids

H Renner, M Grabos, KJ Becker, TE Kagermeier, J Wu… - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Three-dimensional (3D) culture systems have fueled hopes to bring about the next
generation of more physiologically relevant high-throughput screens (HTS). However …

Neuroprosthetic baroreflex controls haemodynamics after spinal cord injury

JW Squair, M Gautier, L Mahe, JE Soriano, A Rowald… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Spinal cord injury (SCI) induces haemodynamic instability that threatens survival,–, impairs
neurological recovery,, increases the risk of cardiovascular disease,, and reduces quality of …

Whole-brain profiling of cells and circuits in mammals by tissue clearing and light-sheet microscopy

HR Ueda, HU Dodt, P Osten, MN Economo… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Tissue clearing and light-sheet microscopy have a 100-year-plus history, yet these fields
have been combined only recently to facilitate novel experiments and measurements in …

Advancing models of neural development with biomaterials

JG Roth, MS Huang, TL Li, VR Feig, Y Jiang… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Human pluripotent stem cells have emerged as a promising in vitro model system for
studying the brain. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional cell culture paradigms have …

Versatile whole-organ/body staining and imaging based on electrolyte-gel properties of biological tissues

EA Susaki, C Shimizu, A Kuno, K Tainaka, X Li… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Whole-organ/body three-dimensional (3D) staining and imaging have been enduring
challenges in histology. By dissecting the complex physicochemical environment of the …