The fractal brain: scale-invariance in structure and dynamics

GF Grosu, AV Hopp, VV Moca, H Bârzan… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The past 40 years have witnessed extensive research on fractal structure and scale-free
dynamics in the brain. Although considerable progress has been made, a comprehensive …

Tissue clearing and 3D imaging in developmental biology

A Vieites-Prado, N Renier - Development, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
Tissue clearing increases the transparency of late developmental stages and enables deep
imaging in fixed organisms. Successful implementation of these methodologies requires a …

Cerebellar nuclei evolved by repeatedly duplicating a conserved cell-type set

JM Kebschull, EB Richman, N Ringach, D Friedmann… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The brains of extant animals have evolved over hundreds of millions of
years from simple circuits. Cell types diversified, connections elaborated, and new brain …

High-throughput map** of a whole rhesus monkey brain at micrometer resolution

F Xu, Y Shen, L Ding, CY Yang, H Tan, H Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Whole-brain mesoscale map** in primates has been hindered by large brain sizes and
the relatively low throughput of available microscopy methods. Here, we present an …

Gapr for large-scale collaborative single-neuron reconstruction

L Gou, Y Wang, L Gao, Y Zhong, L **e, H Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Whole-brain analysis of single-neuron morphology is crucial for unraveling the complex
structure of the brain. However, large-scale neuron reconstruction from terabyte and even …

[HTML][HTML] D-LMBmap: a fully automated deep-learning pipeline for whole-brain profiling of neural circuitry

Z Li, Z Shang, J Liu, H Zhen, E Zhu, S Zhong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent proliferation and integration of tissue-clearing methods and light-sheet fluorescence
microscopy has created new opportunities to achieve mesoscale three-dimensional whole …

Pharmacological targeting of glutamatergic neurons within the brainstem for weight reduction

M Schneeberger, NL Brice, K Pellegrino, L Parolari… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Food intake and body weight are tightly regulated by neurons within specific brain regions,
including the brainstem, where acute activation of dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) …

[HTML][HTML] Edinger-Westphal peptidergic neurons enable maternal preparatory nesting

T Topilko, SL Diaz, CM Pacheco, F Verny… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Optimizing reproductive fitness in mammalians requires behavioral adaptations during
pregnancy. Maternal preparatory nesting is an essential behavior for the survival of the …

[HTML][HTML] Embryonically active piriform cortex neurons promote intracortical recurrent connectivity during development

DC Wang, F Santos-Valencia, JH Song, KM Franks… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Neuronal activity plays a critical role in the maturation of circuits that propagate sensory
information into the brain. How widely does early activity regulate circuit maturation across …

Antibody stabilization for thermally accelerated deep immunostaining

HM Lai, Y Tang, ZYH Lau, RAA Campbell, JCN Yau… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Antibodies have diverse applications due to their high reaction specificities but are sensitive
to denaturation when a higher working temperature is required. We have developed a …