Volume electron microscopy

CJ Peddie, C Genoud, A Kreshuk, K Meechan… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Life exists in three dimensions, but until the turn of the century most electron microscopy
methods provided only 2D image data. Recently, electron microscopy techniques capable of …

A connectome and analysis of the adult Drosophila central brain

LK Scheffer, CS Xu, M Januszewski, Z Lu, S Takemura… - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
The neural circuits responsible for animal behavior remain largely unknown. We summarize
new methods and present the circuitry of a large fraction of the brain of the fruit fly …

[HTML][HTML] ER-to-Golgi protein delivery through an interwoven, tubular network extending from ER

AV Weigel, CL Chang, G Shtengel, CS Xu, DP Hoffman… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Cellular versatility depends on accurate trafficking of diverse proteins to their organellar
destinations. For the secretory pathway (followed by approximately 30% of all proteins), the …

Sample preparation strategies for efficient correlation of 3D SIM and soft X-ray tomography data at cryogenic temperatures

CA Okolo, I Kounatidis, J Groen, KL Nahas, S Balint… - Nature protocols, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract 3D correlative microscopy methods have revolutionized biomedical research,
allowing the acquisition of multidimensional information to gain an in-depth understanding …

A complete electron microscopy volume of the brain of adult Drosophila melanogaster

Z Zheng, JS Lauritzen, E Perlman, CG Robinson… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Drosophila melanogaster has a rich repertoire of innate and learned behaviors. Its 100,000-
neuron brain is a large but tractable target for comprehensive neural circuit mapping. Only …

The receptor DNGR-1 signals for phagosomal rupture to promote cross-presentation of dead-cell-associated antigens

J Canton, H Blees, CM Henry, MD Buck, O Schulz… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Type 1 conventional dendritic (cDC1) cells are necessary for cross-presentation of
many viral and tumor antigens to CD8+ T cells. cDC1 cells can be identified in mice and …

Visualizing cellular and tissue ultrastructure using Ten-fold Robust Expansion Microscopy (TREx)

HGJ Damstra, B Mohar, M Eddison, A Akhmanova… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Expansion microscopy (ExM) is a powerful technique to overcome the diffraction limit of light
microscopy that can be applied in both tissues and cells. In ExM, samples are embedded in …

Mitochondrial DNA replication stress triggers a pro-inflammatory endosomal pathway of nucleoid disposal

LE Newman, S Weiser Novak, GR Rojas… - Nature Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) encodes essential subunits of the oxidative phosphorylation
system, but is also a major damage-associated molecular pattern (DAMP) that engages …

A Connectome of the Adult Drosophila Central Brain

CS Xu, M Januszewski, Z Lu, S Takemura… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
The neural circuits responsible for behavior remain largely unknown. Previous efforts have
reconstructed the complete circuits of small animals, with hundreds of neurons, and selected …

Whole-brain serial-section electron microscopy in larval zebrafish

DGC Hildebrand, M Cicconet, RM Torres, W Choi… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
High-resolution serial-section electron microscopy (ssEM) makes it possible to investigate
the dense meshwork of axons, dendrites, and synapses that form neuronal circuits …