Publication Date:
2010-11-06
Description:
The neuroanatomical architecture is considered to be the basis for understanding brain function and dysfunction. However, existing imaging tools have limitations for brainwide mapping of neural circuits at a mesoscale level. We developed a micro-optical sectioning tomography (MOST) system that can provide micrometer-scale tomography of a centimeter-sized whole mouse brain. Using MOST, we obtained a three-dimensional structural data set of a Golgi-stained whole mouse brain at the neurite level. The morphology and spatial locations of neurons and traces of neurites could be clearly distinguished. We found that neighboring Purkinje cells stick to each other.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Li, Anan -- Gong, Hui -- Zhang, Bin -- Wang, Qingdi -- Yan, Cheng -- Wu, Jingpeng -- Liu, Qian -- Zeng, Shaoqun -- Luo, Qingming -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2010 Dec 3;330(6009):1404-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1191776. Epub 2010 Nov 4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21051596" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Brain/*anatomy & histology/*cytology
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Brain Mapping/*methods
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Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
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*Imaging, Three-Dimensional
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Male
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Mice
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Microscopy
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*Microtomy
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Neural Pathways
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Neurites/ultrastructure
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Neurons/*cytology
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*Tomography, Optical
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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