Pushing the frontiers: tools for monitoring neurotransmitters and neuromodulators

Z Wu, D Lin, Y Li - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Neurotransmitters and neuromodulators have a wide range of key roles throughout the
nervous system. However, their dynamics in both health and disease have been challenging …

Lights, fiber, action! A primer on in vivo fiber photometry

EH Simpson, T Akam, T Patriarchi, M Blanco-Pozo… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Fiber photometry is a key technique for characterizing brain-behavior relationships in vivo.
Initially, it was primarily used to report calcium dynamics as a proxy for neural activity via …

Forty-hertz light stimulation does not entrain native gamma oscillations in Alzheimer's disease model mice

M Soula, A Martín-Ávila, Y Zhang, A Dhingra… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
There is a demand for noninvasive methods to ameliorate disease. We investigated whether
40-Hz flickering light entrains gamma oscillations and suppresses amyloid-β in the brains of …

Improved green and red GRAB sensors for monitoring dopaminergic activity in vivo

Y Zhuo, B Luo, X Yi, H Dong, X Miao, J Wan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Dopamine (DA) plays multiple roles in a wide range of physiological and pathological
processes via a large network of dopaminergic projections. To dissect the spatiotemporal …

Real-time denoising enables high-sensitivity fluorescence time-lapse imaging beyond the shot-noise limit

X Li, Y Li, Y Zhou, J Wu, Z Zhao, J Fan, F Deng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
A fundamental challenge in fluorescence microscopy is the photon shot noise arising from
the inevitable stochasticity of photon detection. Noise increases measurement uncertainty …

Fluorescent proteins and genetically encoded biosensors

M Wang, Y Da, Y Tian - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The genetically encoded fluorescent sensors convert chemical and physical signals into
light. They are powerful tools for the visualisation of physiological processes in living cells …

Next-generation GRAB sensors for monitoring dopaminergic activity in vivo

F Sun, J Zhou, B Dai, T Qian, J Zeng, X Li, Y Zhuo… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Dopamine (DA) plays a critical role in the brain, and the ability to directly measure
dopaminergic activity is essential for understanding its physiological functions. We therefore …

Intrinsic dopamine and acetylcholine dynamics in the striatum of mice

AC Krok, M Maltese, P Mistry, X Miao, Y Li, NX Tritsch - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
External rewards such as food and money are potent modifiers of behaviour,. Pioneering
studies established that these salient sensory stimuli briefly interrupt the tonic discharge of …

A genetically encoded sensor measures temporal oxytocin release from different neuronal compartments

T Qian, H Wang, P Wang, L Geng, L Mei… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Oxytocin (OT), a peptide hormone and neuromodulator, is involved in diverse physiological
and pathophysiological processes in the central nervous system and the periphery …

Basal forebrain cholinergic signalling: development, connectivity and roles in cognition

MR Ananth, P Rajebhosale, R Kim… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Acetylcholine plays an essential role in fundamental aspects of cognition. Studies that have
mapped the activity and functional connectivity of cholinergic neurons have shown that the …