Light sheet fluorescence microscopy

EHK Stelzer, F Strobl, BJ Chang, F Preusser… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) uses a thin sheet of light to excite only
fluorophores within the focal volume. Light sheet microscopes (LSMs) have a true optical …

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 …

Mapping the fine-scale organization and plasticity of the brain vasculature

C Kirst, S Skriabine, A Vieites-Prado, T Topilko… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The cerebral vasculature is a dense network of arteries, capillaries, and veins. Quantifying
variations of the vascular organization across individuals, brain regions, or disease models …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstruction of 1,000 projection neurons reveals new cell types and organization of long-range connectivity in the mouse brain

J Winnubst, E Bas, TA Ferreira, Z Wu, MN Economo… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Neuronal cell types are the nodes of neural circuits that determine the flow of information
within the brain. Neuronal morphology, especially the shape of the axonal arbor, provides …

Cortical column and whole-brain imaging with molecular contrast and nanoscale resolution

R Gao, SM Asano, S Upadhyayula, I Pisarev, DE Milkie… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Neural circuits across the brain are composed of structures spanning
seven orders of magnitude in size that are assembled from thousands of distinct protein …

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 …

Intact-brain analyses reveal distinct information carried by SNc dopamine subcircuits

TN Lerner, C Shilyansky, TJ Davidson, KE Evans… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Recent progress in understanding the diversity of midbrain dopamine neurons has
highlighted the importance—and the challenges—of defining mammalian neuronal cell …

High-throughput mapping of a whole rhesus monkey brain at micrometer resolution

F Xu, Y Shen, L Ding, CY Yang, H Tan, H Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Whole-brain mesoscale mapping in primates has been hindered by large brain sizes and
the relatively low throughput of available microscopy methods. Here, we present an …

Advanced CLARITY for rapid and high-resolution imaging of intact tissues

R Tomer, L Ye, B Hsueh, K Deisseroth - Nature protocols, 2014 - nature.com
CLARITY is a method for chemical transformation of intact biological tissues into a hydrogel-
tissue hybrid, which becomes amenable to interrogation with light and macromolecular …

BigStitcher: reconstructing high-resolution image datasets of cleared and expanded samples

D Hörl, F Rojas Rusak, F Preusser, P Tillberg… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Light-sheet imaging of cleared and expanded samples creates terabyte-sized datasets that
consist of many unaligned three-dimensional image tiles, which must be reconstructed …