Imaging calcium in neurons

C Grienberger, A Konnerth - Neuron, 2012 - cell.com
Calcium ions generate versatile intracellular signals that control key functions in all types of
neurons. Imaging calcium in neurons is particularly important because calcium signals exert …

CLARITY for mapping the nervous system

K Chung, K Deisseroth - Nature methods, 2013 - nature.com
With potential relevance for brain-mapping work, hydrogel-based structures can now be built
from within biological tissue to allow subsequent removal of lipids without mechanical …

Ablation-cooled material removal with ultrafast bursts of pulses

C Kerse, H Kalaycıoğlu, P Elahi, B Çetin, DK Kesim… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The use of femtosecond laser pulses allows precise and thermal-damage-free removal of
material (ablation) with wide-ranging scientific,,,,, medical,,,,, and industrial applications …

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 …

A platform for brain-wide imaging and reconstruction of individual neurons

MN Economo, NG Clack, LD Lavis, CR Gerfen… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
The structure of axonal arbors controls how signals from individual neurons are routed
within the mammalian brain. However, the arbors of very few long-range projection neurons …

The cortical angiome: an interconnected vascular network with noncolumnar patterns of blood flow

P Blinder, PS Tsai, JP Kaufhold, PM Knutsen… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
What is the nature of the vascular architecture in the cortex that allows the brain to meet the
energy demands of neuronal computations? We used high-throughput histology to …

Serial two-photon tomography for automated ex vivo mouse brain imaging

T Ragan, LR Kadiri, KU Venkataraju, K Bahlmann… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Here we describe an automated method, named serial two-photon (STP) tomography, that
achieves high-throughput fluorescence imaging of mouse brains by integrating two-photon …

Nonlinear magic: multiphoton microscopy in the biosciences

WR Zipfel, RM Williams, WW Webb - Nature biotechnology, 2003 - nature.com
Multiphoton microscopy (MPM) has found a niche in the world of biological imaging as the
best noninvasive means of fluorescence microscopy in tissue explants and living animals …

Two-photon absorption properties of fluorescent proteins

M Drobizhev, NS Makarov, SE Tillo, TE Hughes… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Two-photon excitation of fluorescent proteins is an attractive approach for imaging living
systems. Today researchers are eager to know which proteins are the brightest and what the …

The fluorescent toolbox for assessing protein location and function

BNG Giepmans, SR Adams, MH Ellisman, RY Tsien - science, 2006 - science.org
Advances in molecular biology, organic chemistry, and materials science have recently
created several new classes of fluorescent probes for imaging in cell biology. Here we …