Light sheet fluorescence microscopy

EHK Stelzer, F Strobl, BJ Chang, F Preusser… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) uses a thin sheet of light to excite only
fluorophores within the focal volume. Light sheet microscopes (LSMs) have a true optical …

Two-photon calcium imaging of neuronal activity

C Grienberger, A Giovannucci, W Zeiger… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
In vivo two-photon calcium imaging (2PCI) is a technique used for recording neuronal
activity in the intact brain. It is based on the principle that, when neurons fire action …

[HTML][HTML] Fast and sensitive GCaMP calcium indicators for imaging neural populations

Y Zhang, M Rózsa, Y Liang, D Bushey, Z Wei, J Zheng… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Calcium imaging with protein-based indicators, is widely used to follow neural activity in
intact nervous systems, but current protein sensors report neural activity at timescales much …

[HTML][HTML] Drugs that inhibit TMEM16 proteins block SARS-CoV-2 spike-induced syncytia

L Braga, H Ali, I Secco, E Chiavacci, G Neves… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
COVID-19 is a disease with unique characteristics that include lung thrombosis, frequent
diarrhoea, abnormal activation of the inflammatory response and rapid deterioration of lung …

Sensitive multicolor indicators for monitoring norepinephrine in vivo

Z Kagiampaki, V Rohner, C Kiss, S Curreli, A Dieter… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Genetically encoded indicators engineered from G-protein-coupled receptors are important
tools that enable high-resolution in vivo neuromodulator imaging. Here, we introduce a …

A positively tuned voltage indicator for extended electrical recordings in the brain

SW Evans, DQ Shi, M Chavarha, MH Plitt, J Taxidis… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Genetically encoded voltage indicators (GEVIs) enable optical recording of electrical signals
in the brain, providing subthreshold sensitivity and temporal resolution not possible with …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale two-photon calcium imaging in freely moving mice

W Zong, HA Obenhaus, ER Skytøen, H Eneqvist… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
We developed a miniaturized two-photon microscope (MINI2P) for fast, high-resolution,
multiplane calcium imaging of over 1,000 neurons at a time in freely moving mice. With a …

Self-assembling human heart organoids for the modeling of cardiac development and congenital heart disease

YR Lewis-Israeli, AH Wasserman, MA Gabalski… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Congenital heart defects constitute the most common human birth defect, however
understanding of how these disorders originate is limited by our ability to model the human …

[HTML][HTML] Neural signal propagation atlas of Caenorhabditis elegans

F Randi, AK Sharma, S Dvali, AM Leifer - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Establishing how neural function emerges from network properties is a fundamental problem
in neuroscience. Here, to better understand the relationship between the structure and the …

Generation of human striatal organoids and cortico-striatal assembloids from human pluripotent stem cells

Y Miura, MY Li, F Birey, K Ikeda, O Revah… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cortico-striatal projections are critical components of forebrain circuitry that regulate
motivated behaviors. To enable the study of the human cortico-striatal pathway and how its …