Pushing the frontiers: tools for monitoring neurotransmitters and neuromodulators

Z Wu, D Lin, Y Li - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Neurotransmitters and neuromodulators have a wide range of key roles throughout the
nervous system. However, their dynamics in both health and disease have been challenging …

Structure-and mechanism-guided design of single fluorescent protein-based biosensors

Y Nasu, Y Shen, L Kramer, RE Campbell - Nature chemical biology, 2021 - nature.com
Intensiometric genetically encoded biosensors, based on allosteric modulation of the
fluorescence of a single fluorescent protein, are powerful tools for enabling imaging of …

An expanded palette of dopamine sensors for multiplex imaging in vivo

T Patriarchi, A Mohebi, J Sun, A Marley, R Liang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Genetically encoded dopamine sensors based on green fluorescent protein (GFP) enable
high-resolution imaging of dopamine dynamics in behaving animals. However, these GFP …

Fluorescence imaging of large-scale neural ensemble dynamics

TH Kim, MJ Schnitzer - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Recent progress in fluorescence imaging allows neuroscientists to observe the dynamics of
thousands of individual neurons, identified genetically or by their connectivity, across …

Recent advances in neurotechnologies with broad potential for neuroscience research

A Vázquez-Guardado, Y Yang, AJ Bandodkar… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Interest in deciphering the fundamental mechanisms and processes of the human mind
represents a central driving force in modern neuroscience research. Activities in support of …

Cardiac optogenetics: a decade of enlightenment

E Entcheva, MW Kay - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2021 - nature.com
The electromechanical function of the heart involves complex, coordinated activity over time
and space. Life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias arise from asynchrony in these space–time …

Fluorescence imaging of neural activity, neurochemical dynamics, and drug-specific receptor conformation with genetically encoded sensors

C Dong, Y Zheng, K Long-Iyer… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Recent advances in fluorescence imaging permit large-scale recording of neural activity and
dynamics of neurochemical release with unprecedented resolution in behaving animals …

[HTML][HTML] A flexible two-photon fiberscope for fast activity imaging and precise optogenetic photostimulation of neurons in freely moving mice

N Accanto, FGC Blot, A Lorca-Cámara, V Zampini… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
We developed a flexible two-photon microendoscope (2P-FENDO) capable of all-optical
brain investigation at near cellular resolution in freely moving mice. The system performs fast …

A near-infrared genetically encoded calcium indicator for in vivo imaging

AA Shemetov, MV Monakhov, Q Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
While calcium imaging has become a mainstay of modern neuroscience, the spectral
properties of current fluorescent calcium indicators limit deep-tissue imaging as well as …

The HaloTag as a general scaffold for far-red tunable chemigenetic indicators

C Deo, AS Abdelfattah, HK Bhargava, AJ Berro… - Nature chemical …, 2021 - nature.com
Functional imaging using fluorescent indicators has revolutionized biology, but additional
sensor scaffolds are needed to access properties such as bright, far-red emission. Here, we …