Neural plasticity explored by correlative two-photon and electron/SPIM microscopy

A. L. Allegra Mascaro; L. Silvestri; I. Costantini; L. Sacconi; B. Maco; G. W. Knott; F. S. Pavone

doi:10.1117/12.2032505

17 June 2013 Neural plasticity explored by correlative two-photon and electron/SPIM microscopy

A. L. Allegra Mascaro, L. Silvestri, I. Costantini, L. Sacconi, B. Maco, G. W. Knott, F. S. Pavone

Proceedings Volume 8797, Advanced Microscopy Techniques III; 87970G (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2032505
Event: European Conferences on Biomedical Optics, 2013, Munich, Germany

Abstract

Plasticity of the central nervous system is a complex process which involves the remodeling of neuronal processes and synaptic contacts. However, a single imaging technique can reveal only a small part of this complex machinery. To obtain a more complete view, complementary approaches should be combined. Two-photon fluorescence microscopy, combined with multi-photon laser nanosurgery, allow following the real-time dynamics of single neuronal processes in the cerebral cortex of living mice. The structural rearrangement elicited by this highly confined paradigm of injury can be imaged in vivo first, and then the same neuron could be retrieved ex-vivo and characterized in terms of ultrastructural features of the damaged neuronal branch by means of electron microscopy. Afterwards, we describe a method to integrate data from in vivo two-photon fluorescence imaging and ex vivo light sheet microscopy, based on the use of major blood vessels as reference chart. We show how the apical dendritic arbor of a single cortical pyramidal neuron imaged in living mice can be found in the large-scale brain reconstruction obtained with light sheet microscopy. Starting from its apical portion, the whole pyramidal neuron can then be segmented and located in the correct cortical layer. With the correlative approach presented here, researchers will be able to place in a three-dimensional anatomic context the neurons whose dynamics have been observed with high detail in vivo.

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A. L. Allegra Mascaro, L. Silvestri, I. Costantini, L. Sacconi, B. Maco, G. W. Knott, and F. S. Pavone "Neural plasticity explored by correlative two-photon and electron/SPIM microscopy", Proc. SPIE 8797, Advanced Microscopy Techniques III, 87970G (17 June 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2032505

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In vivo imaging

Neurons

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