Engineered human blood–brain barrier microfluidic model for vascular permeability analyses

C Hajal, GS Offeddu, Y Shin, S Zhang, O Morozova… - Nature protocols, 2022 - nature.com
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) greatly restricts the entry of biological and engineered
therapeutic molecules into the brain. Due to challenges in translating results from animal …

Tissue clearing

DS Richardson, W Guan, K Matsumoto, C Pan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Tissue clearing of gross anatomical samples was first described more than a century ago
and has only recently found widespread use in the field of microscopy. This renaissance has …

[HTML][HTML] White matter aging drives microglial diversity

S Safaiyan, S Besson-Girard, T Kaya… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Aging results in gray and white matter degeneration, but the specific microglial responses
are unknown. Using single-cell RNA sequencing from white and gray matter separately, we …

Covalently engineered nanobody chimeras for targeted membrane protein degradation

H Zhang, Y Han, Y Yang, F Lin, K Li… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The targeted degradation of membrane proteins would afford an attractive and general
strategy for treating various diseases that remain difficult with the current proteolysis …

Nanobody: a promising toolkit for molecular imaging and disease therapy

G Bao, M Tang, J Zhao, X Zhu - EJNMMI research, 2021 - Springer
Nanobodies are the recombinant variable domains of heavy-chain-only antibodies, with
many unique properties such as small size, excellent solubility, superior stability, quick …

Dense 4D nanoscale reconstruction of living brain tissue

P Velicky, E Miguel, JM Michalska, J Lyudchik, D Wei… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of living brain tissue down to an individual
synapse level would create opportunities for decoding the dynamics and structure–function …

HER2-directed antibodies, affibodies and nanobodies as drug-delivery vehicles in breast cancer with a specific focus on radioimmunotherapy and …

B Altunay, A Morgenroth, M Beheshti, A Vogg… - European journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose The aim of the present paper is to review the role of HER2 antibodies, affibodies
and nanobodies as vehicles for imaging and therapy approaches in breast cancer, including …

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 …

Antigen retrieval and clearing for whole-organ immunofluorescence by FLASH

HA Messal, J Almagro, M Zaw Thin, A Tedeschi… - Nature protocols, 2021 - nature.com
Advances in light-sheet and confocal microscopy now allow imaging of cleared large
biological tissue samples and enable the 3D appreciation of cell and protein localization in …

Nanobodies in cancer

ER Verhaar, AW Woodham, HL Ploegh - Seminars in immunology, 2021 - Elsevier
For treatment and diagnosis of cancer, antibodies have proven their value and now serve as
a first line of therapy for certain cancers. A unique class of antibody fragments called …