Sarcopenia: aging-related loss of muscle mass and function

L Larsson, H Degens, M Li, L Salviati… - Physiological …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
Sarcopenia is a loss of muscle mass and function in the elderly that reduces mobility,
diminishes quality of life, and can lead to fall-related injuries, which require costly …

Architectures of neuronal circuits

L Luo - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND The human brain contains about 100 billion neurons, each of which makes
thousands of synaptic connections. Although individual neurons can themselves be …

Comparative cellular analysis of motor cortex in human, marmoset and mouse

TE Bakken, NL Jorstad, Q Hu, BB Lake, W Tian… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The primary motor cortex (M1) is essential for voluntary fine-motor control and is functionally
conserved across mammals. Here, using high-throughput transcriptomic and epigenomic …

[HTML][HTML] Psilocybin induces rapid and persistent growth of dendritic spines in frontal cortex in vivo

LX Shao, C Liao, I Gregg, PA Davoudian, NK Savalia… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Psilocybin is a serotonergic psychedelic with untapped therapeutic potential. There are hints
that the use of psychedelics can produce neural adaptations, although the extent and …

A robust and high-throughput Cre reporting and characterization system for the whole mouse brain

L Madisen, TA Zwingman, SM Sunkin, SW Oh… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
The Cre/lox system is widely used in mice to achieve cell-type-specific gene expression.
However, a strong and universally responding system to express genes under Cre control is …

A non-hallucinogenic psychedelic analogue with therapeutic potential

LP Cameron, RJ Tombari, J Lu, AJ Pell, ZQ Hurley… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The psychedelic alkaloid ibogaine has anti-addictive properties in both humans and animals
1. Unlike most medications for the treatment of substance use disorders, anecdotal reports …

[HTML][HTML] iDISCO: a simple, rapid method to immunolabel large tissue samples for volume imaging

N Renier, Z Wu, DJ Simon, J Yang, P Ariel… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
The visualization of molecularly labeled structures within large intact tissues in three
dimensions is an area of intense focus. We describe a simple, rapid, and inexpensive …

Expansion microscopy

F Chen, PW Tillberg, ES Boyden - Science, 2015 - science.org
In optical microscopy, fine structural details are resolved by using refraction to magnify
images of a specimen. We discovered that by synthesizing a swellable polymer network …

Structural and molecular interrogation of intact biological systems

K Chung, J Wallace, SY Kim, S Kalyanasundaram… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Obtaining high-resolution information from a complex system, while maintaining the global
perspective needed to understand system function, represents a key challenge in biology …

Deep tissue two-photon microscopy

F Helmchen, W Denk - Nature methods, 2005 - nature.com
With few exceptions biological tissues strongly scatter light, making high-resolution deep
imaging impossible for traditional—including confocal—fluorescence microscopy. Nonlinear …