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 …

Fluorescent proteins and genetically encoded biosensors

M Wang, Y Da, Y Tian - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The genetically encoded fluorescent sensors convert chemical and physical signals into
light. They are powerful tools for the visualisation of physiological processes in living cells …

Sensitive multicolor indicators for monitoring norepinephrine in vivo

Z Kagiampaki, V Rohner, C Kiss, S Curreli, A Dieter… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Genetically encoded indicators engineered from G-protein-coupled receptors are important
tools that enable high-resolution in vivo neuromodulator imaging. Here, we introduce a …

Directed evolution of adeno-associated virus for efficient gene delivery to microglia

R Lin, Y Zhou, T Yan, R Wang, H Li, Z Wu, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
As the resident immune cells in the central nervous system (CNS), microglia orchestrate
immune responses and dynamically sculpt neural circuits in the CNS. Microglial dysfunction …

Real-time denoising enables high-sensitivity fluorescence time-lapse imaging beyond the shot-noise limit

X Li, Y Li, Y Zhou, J Wu, Z Zhao, J Fan, F Deng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
A fundamental challenge in fluorescence microscopy is the photon shot noise arising from
the inevitable stochasticity of photon detection. Noise increases measurement uncertainty …

A genetically encoded sensor measures temporal oxytocin release from different neuronal compartments

T Qian, H Wang, P Wang, L Geng, L Mei… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Oxytocin (OT), a peptide hormone and neuromodulator, is involved in diverse physiological
and pathophysiological processes in the central nervous system and the periphery …

Neuronal activity-induced, equilibrative nucleoside transporter-dependent, somatodendritic adenosine release revealed by a GRAB sensor

Z Wu, Y Cui, H Wang, H Wu, Y Wan… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The purinergic signaling molecule adenosine (Ado) modulates many physiological and
pathological functions in the brain. However, the exact source of extracellular Ado remains …

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 …

Adenosine-independent regulation of the sleep–wake cycle by astrocyte activity

W Peng, X Liu, G Ma, Z Wu, Z Wang, X Fei, M Qin… - Cell discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Astrocytes play a crucial role in regulating sleep–wake behavior, and adenosine signaling is
generally thought to be involved. Here we show multiple lines of evidence supporting that …

Adenosine triggers early astrocyte reactivity that provokes microglial responses and drives the pathogenesis of sepsis-associated encephalopathy in mice

Q Guo, D Gobbo, N Zhao, H Zhang, NO Awuku… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Molecular pathways mediating systemic inflammation entering the brain parenchyma to
induce sepsis-associated encephalopathy (SAE) remain elusive. Here, we report that in …