Tissue clearing and its applications in neuroscience

HR Ueda, A Ertürk, K Chung, V Gradinaru… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
State-of-the-art tissue-clearing methods provide subcellular-level optical access to intact
tissues from individual organs and even to some entire mammals. When combined with light …

Tutorial: practical considerations for tissue clearing and imaging

KR Weiss, FF Voigt, DP Shepherd, J Huisken - Nature protocols, 2021 - nature.com
Tissue clearing has become a powerful technique for studying anatomy and morphology at
scales ranging from entire organisms to subcellular features. With the recent proliferation of …

BigStitcher: reconstructing high-resolution image datasets of cleared and expanded samples

D Hörl, F Rojas Rusak, F Preusser, P Tillberg… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Light-sheet imaging of cleared and expanded samples creates terabyte-sized datasets that
consist of many unaligned three-dimensional image tiles, which must be reconstructed …

Advanced CUBIC tissue clearing for whole-organ cell profiling

K Matsumoto, TT Mitani, SA Horiguchi, J Kaneshiro… - Nature protocols, 2019 - nature.com
Tissue-clearing techniques are powerful tools for biological research and pathological
diagnosis. Here, we describe advanced clear, unobstructed brain imaging cocktails and …

Universal autofocus for quantitative volumetric microscopy of whole mouse brains

L Silvestri, MC Müllenbroich, I Costantini… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Unbiased quantitative analysis of macroscopic biological samples demands fast imaging
systems capable of maintaining high resolution across large volumes. Here we introduce …

Advances in ex situ tissue optical clearing

P Matryba, L Kaczmarek, J Gołąb - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Examination of whole organs with subcellular resolution in health, disease, and during
development is necessary to decipher their biological complexity. However, until recently …

A versatile tiling light sheet microscope for imaging of cleared tissues

Y Chen, X Li, D Zhang, C Wang, R Feng, X Li, Y Wen… - Cell Reports, 2020 - cell.com
We present a tiling light sheet microscope compatible with all tissue clearing methods for
rapid multicolor 3D imaging of cleared tissues with micron-scale (4× 4× 10 μm 3) to …

Deep learning-based autofocus method enhances image quality in light-sheet fluorescence microscopy

C Li, A Moatti, X Zhang, H Troy Ghashghaei… - Biomedical Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Light-sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) is a minimally invasive and high throughput
imaging technique ideal for capturing large volumes of tissue with sub-cellular resolution. A …

Whole brain functional recordings at cellular resolution in zebrafish larvae with 3D scanning multiphoton microscopy

M Bruzzone, E Chiarello, M Albanesi… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Optical recordings of neuronal activity at cellular resolution represent an invaluable tool to
investigate brain mechanisms. Zebrafish larvae is one of the few model organisms where …

A multiwell plate approach to increase the sample throughput during tissue clearing

F Akiyama, K Matsumoto, K Yamashita, A Oishi… - Nature protocols, 2024 - nature.com
Tissue clearing, coupled with immunostaining, enables the transition from two-dimensional
to three-dimensional pathology and has the potential to substantially improve data quality for …