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 …

Fluorescence imaging of large-scale neural ensemble dynamics

TH Kim, MJ Schnitzer - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Recent progress in fluorescence imaging allows neuroscientists to observe the dynamics of
thousands of individual neurons, identified genetically or by their connectivity, across …

Structure-and mechanism-guided design of single fluorescent protein-based biosensors

Y Nasu, Y Shen, L Kramer, RE Campbell - Nature chemical biology, 2021 - nature.com
Intensiometric genetically encoded biosensors, based on allosteric modulation of the
fluorescence of a single fluorescent protein, are powerful tools for enabling imaging of …

An expanded palette of dopamine sensors for multiplex imaging in vivo

T Patriarchi, A Mohebi, J Sun, A Marley, R Liang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Genetically encoded dopamine sensors based on green fluorescent protein (GFP) enable
high-resolution imaging of dopamine dynamics in behaving animals. However, these GFP …

The HaloTag as a general scaffold for far-red tunable chemigenetic indicators

C Deo, AS Abdelfattah, HK Bhargava, AJ Berro… - Nature chemical …, 2021 - nature.com
Functional imaging using fluorescent indicators has revolutionized biology, but additional
sensor scaffolds are needed to access properties such as bright, far-red emission. Here, we …

Fluorescence imaging of neural activity, neurochemical dynamics, and drug-specific receptor conformation with genetically encoded sensors

C Dong, Y Zheng, K Long-Iyer… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Recent advances in fluorescence imaging permit large-scale recording of neural activity and
dynamics of neurochemical release with unprecedented resolution in behaving animals …

Recent advances in neurotechnologies with broad potential for neuroscience research

A Vázquez-Guardado, Y Yang, AJ Bandodkar… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Interest in deciphering the fundamental mechanisms and processes of the human mind
represents a central driving force in modern neuroscience research. Activities in support of …

Controlling the sound of light: photoswitching optoacoustic imaging

AC Stiel, V Ntziachristos - Nature Methods, 2024 - nature.com
Optoacoustic (photoacoustic) imaging advances allow high-resolution optical imaging much
deeper than optical microscopy. However, while label-free optoacoustics have already …

Rapid volumetric optoacoustic imaging of neural dynamics across the mouse brain

S Gottschalk, O Degtyaruk, B Mc Larney… - Nature biomedical …, 2019 - nature.com
Efforts to scale neuroimaging towards the direct visualization of mammalian brain-wide
neuronal activity have faced major challenges. Although high-resolution optical imaging of …

Cardiac optogenetics: a decade of enlightenment

E Entcheva, MW Kay - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2021 - nature.com
The electromechanical function of the heart involves complex, coordinated activity over time
and space. Life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias arise from asynchrony in these space–time …