Expansion microscopy: super-resolution imaging with hydrogels

S Truckenbrodt - Analytical Chemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
Guidelines, Not Rules 14 Chemical Principles of Accessing Biomolecules in Expansion
Microscopy 14 Accessing Proteins 14 Protein Anchoring with Indirect Readout 14 Protein …

[HTML][HTML] Expansion microscopy: a powerful nanoscale imaging tool for neuroscientists

BR Gallagher, Y Zhao - Neurobiology of disease, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the biggest unsolved questions in neuroscience is how molecules and neuronal
circuitry create behaviors, and how their misregulation or dysfunction results in neurological …

Tau Oligomer–Containing Synapse Elimination by Microglia and Astrocytes in Alzheimer Disease

RN Taddei, R Perbet, AM de Gerando… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Factors associated with synapse loss beyond amyloid-β plaques and
neurofibrillary tangles may more closely correlate with the emergence of cognitive deficits in …

Light microscopy of proteins in their ultrastructural context

O M'Saad, J Bewersdorf - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Resolving the distribution of specific proteins at the nanoscale in the ultrastructural context of
the cell is a major challenge in fluorescence microscopy. We report the discovery of a new …

Improved immunostaining of nanostructures and cells in human brain specimens through expansion-mediated protein decrowding

PA Valdes, CC Yu, J Aronson, D Ghosh… - Science translational …, 2024 - science.org
Proteins are densely packed in cells and tissues, where they form complex nanostructures.
Expansion microscopy (ExM) variants have been used to separate proteins from each other …

Super‐resolution vibrational imaging using expansion stimulated Raman scattering microscopy

L Shi, A Klimas, B Gallagher, Z Cheng, F Fu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy is an emerging technology that provides
high chemical specificity for endogenous biomolecules and can circumvent common …

Heat denaturation enables multicolor X10-STED microscopy

KA Saal, AH Shaib, N Mougios, D Crzan, F Opazo… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Expansion microscopy (ExM) improves imaging quality by physically enlarging the
biological specimens. In principle, combining a large expansion factor with optical super …

Recording of cellular physiological histories along optically readable self-assembling protein chains

C Linghu, B An, M Shpokayte, OT Celiker… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Observing cellular physiological histories is key to understanding normal and disease-
related processes. Here we describe expression recording islands—a fully genetically …

Shortened tethering filaments stabilize presynaptic vesicles in support of elevated release probability during LTP in rat hippocampus

JH Jung, LM Kirk, JN Bourne… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Long-term potentiation (LTP) is a cellular mechanism of learning and memory that results in
a sustained increase in the probability of vesicular release of neurotransmitter. However …

The role of molecular diffusion within dendritic spines in synaptic function

K Obashi, JW Taraska, S Okabe - Journal of General Physiology, 2021 - rupress.org
Spines are tiny nanoscale protrusions from dendrites of neurons. In the cortex and
hippocampus, most of the excitatory postsynaptic sites reside in spines. The bulbous spine …