Whole-body and whole-organ clearing and imaging techniques with single-cell resolution: toward organism-level systems biology in mammals

EA Susaki, HR Ueda - Cell chemical biology, 2016 - cell.com
Organism-level systems biology aims to identify, analyze, control and design cellular circuits
in organisms. Many experimental and computational approaches have been developed …

A survey of methods for 3D histology reconstruction

J Pichat, JE Iglesias, T Yousry, S Ourselin… - Medical image analysis, 2018 - Elsevier
Histology permits the observation of otherwise invisible structures of the internal topography
of a specimen. Although it enables the investigation of tissues at a cellular level, it is invasive …

Single-cell profiling identifies myeloid cell subsets with distinct fates during neuroinflammation

MJC Jordão, R Sankowski, SM Brendecke, Sagar… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Under homeostasis, the central nervous system (CNS) hosts microglia
(MG) and CNS-associated macrophages (CAMs). During experimental autoimmune …

3D U-Net: learning dense volumetric segmentation from sparse annotation

Ö Çiçek, A Abdulkadir, SS Lienkamp, T Brox… - … Image Computing and …, 2016 - Springer
This paper introduces a network for volumetric segmentation that learns from sparsely
annotated volumetric images. We outline two attractive use cases of this method:(1) In a …

Brain capillary pericytes exert a substantial but slow influence on blood flow

DA Hartmann, AA Berthiaume, RI Grant, SA Harrill… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The majority of the brain's vasculature is composed of intricate capillary networks lined by
capillary pericytes. However, it remains unclear whether capillary pericytes influence blood …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstruction of 1,000 projection neurons reveals new cell types and organization of long-range connectivity in the mouse brain

J Winnubst, E Bas, TA Ferreira, Z Wu, MN Economo… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Neuronal cell types are the nodes of neural circuits that determine the flow of information
within the brain. Neuronal morphology, especially the shape of the axonal arbor, provides …

A new fate map** system reveals context-dependent random or clonal expansion of microglia

TL Tay, D Mai, J Dautzenberg, F Fernández-Klett… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Microglia constitute a highly specialized network of tissue-resident immune cells that is
important for the control of tissue homeostasis and the resolution of diseases of the CNS …

Cortical column and whole-brain imaging with molecular contrast and nanoscale resolution

R Gao, SM Asano, S Upadhyayula, I Pisarev, DE Milkie… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Neural circuits across the brain are composed of structures spanning
seven orders of magnitude in size that are assembled from thousands of distinct protein …

[HTML][HTML] Whole-brain imaging with single-cell resolution using chemical cocktails and computational analysis

EA Susaki, K Tainaka, D Perrin, F Kishino, T Tawara… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Systems-level identification and analysis of cellular circuits in the brain will require the
development of whole-brain imaging with single-cell resolution. To this end, we performed …

Inefficient clearance of myelin debris by microglia impairs remyelinating processes

A Lampron, A Larochelle, N Laflamme… - Journal of Experimental …, 2015 - rupress.org
An imbalance between remyelinating and demyelinating rates underlies degenerative
processes in demyelinating diseases such as multiple sclerosis. An optimal therapeutic …