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Castillo-Velasquez C, Matamala E, Becerra D, Orio P, Brauchi SE. Optical recordings of organellar membrane potentials and the components of membrane conductance in lysosomes. J Physiol 2024; 602:1637-1654. [PMID: 38625711 DOI: 10.1113/jp283825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2023] [Accepted: 03/20/2024] [Indexed: 04/17/2024] Open
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The eukaryotic cell is highly compartmentalized with organelles. Owing to their function in transporting metabolites, metabolic intermediates and byproducts of metabolic activity, organelles are important players in the orchestration of cellular function. Recent advances in optical methods for interrogating the different aspects of organellar activity promise to revolutionize our ability to dissect cellular processes with unprecedented detail. The transport activity of organelles is usually coupled to the transport of charged species; therefore, it is not only associated with the metabolic landscape but also entangled with membrane potentials. In this context, the targeted expression of fluorescent probes for interrogating organellar membrane potential (Ψorg) emerges as a powerful approach, offering less-invasive conditions and technical simplicity to interrogate cellular signalling and metabolism. Different research groups have made remarkable progress in adapting a variety of optical methods for measuring and monitoring Ψorg. These approaches include using potentiometric dyes, genetically encoded voltage indicators, hybrid fluorescence resonance energy transfer sensors and photoinduced electron transfer systems. These studies have provided consistent values for the resting potential of single-membrane organelles, such as lysosomes, the Golgi and the endoplasmic reticulum. We can foresee the use of dynamic measurements of Ψorg to study fundamental problems in organellar physiology that are linked to serious cellular disorders. Here, we present an overview of the available techniques, a survey of the resting membrane potential of internal membranes and, finally, an open-source mathematical model useful to interpret and interrogate membrane-bound structures of small volume by using the lysosome as an example.
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- Cristian Castillo-Velasquez
- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile
- Millennium Nucleus of Ion Channel-Associated Diseases (MiNICAD), Valdivia, Chile
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile
- Millennium Nucleus of Ion Channel-Associated Diseases (MiNICAD), Valdivia, Chile
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia de Valparaíso, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia de Valparaíso, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile
- Instituto de Neurociencias, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile
- Millennium Nucleus of Ion Channel-Associated Diseases (MiNICAD), Valdivia, Chile
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Oliden-Sánchez A, Sola-Llano R, Pérez-Pariente J, Gómez-Hortigüela L, Martínez-Martínez V. Confinement of a Styryl Dye into Nanoporous Aluminophosphates: Channels vs. Cavities. Int J Mol Sci 2024; 25:3577. [PMID: 38612388 PMCID: PMC11011965 DOI: 10.3390/ijms25073577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2024] [Revised: 03/07/2024] [Accepted: 03/13/2024] [Indexed: 04/14/2024] Open
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Styryl dyes are generally poor fluorescent molecules inherited from their flexible molecular structures. However, their emissive properties can be boosted by restricting their molecular motions. A tight confinement into inorganic molecular sieves is a good strategy to yield highly fluorescent hybrid systems. In this work, we compare the confinement effect of two Mg-aluminophosphate zeotypes with distinct pore systems (the AEL framework, a one-dimensional channeled structure with elliptical pores of 6.5 Å × 4.0 Å, and the CHA framework, composed of large cavities of 6.7 Å × 10.0 Å connected by eight-ring narrower windows) for the encapsulation of 4-DASPI styryl dye (trans-4-[4-(Dimethylamino)styryl]-1-methylpyridinium iodide). The resultant hybrid systems display significantly improved photophysical features compared to 4-DASPI in solution as a result of tight confinement in both host inorganic frameworks. Molecular simulations reveal a tighter confinement of 4-DASPI in the elliptical channels of AEL, explaining its excellent photophysical properties. On the other hand, a singular arrangement of 4-DASPI dye is found when confined within the cavity-based CHA framework, where the 4-DASPI molecule spans along two adjacent cavities, with each aromatic ring sitting on these adjacent cavities and the polymethine chain residing within the narrower eight-ring window. However, despite the singularity of this host-guest arrangement, it provides less tight confinement for 4-DASPI than AEL, resulting in a slightly lower quantum yield.
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- Ainhoa Oliden-Sánchez
- Departamento de Química Física, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Apartado 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain; (A.O.-S.); (R.S.-L.)
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- Departamento de Química Física, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Apartado 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain; (A.O.-S.); (R.S.-L.)
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- Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica (CSIC), c/Marie Curie 2, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain;
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- Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica (CSIC), c/Marie Curie 2, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain;
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- Departamento de Química Física, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Apartado 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain; (A.O.-S.); (R.S.-L.)
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Hiyoshi K, Shiraishi A, Fukuda N, Tsuda S. In vivo wide-field voltage imaging in zebrafish with voltage-sensitive dye and genetically encoded voltage indicator. Dev Growth Differ 2021; 63:417-428. [PMID: 34411280 DOI: 10.1111/dgd.12744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2021] [Revised: 07/01/2021] [Accepted: 07/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The brain consists of neural circuits, which are assemblies of various neuron types. For understanding how the brain works, it is essential to identify the functions of each type of neuron and neuronal circuits. Recent advances in our understanding of brain function and its development have been achieved using light to detect neuronal activity. Optical measurement of membrane potentials through voltage imaging is a desirable approach, enabling fast, direct, and simultaneous detection of membrane potentials in a population of neurons. Its high speed and directness can help detect synaptic and action potentials and hyperpolarization, which encode critical information for brain function. Here, we describe in vivo voltage imaging procedures that we have recently established using zebrafish, a powerful animal model in developmental biology and neuroscience. By applying two types of voltage sensors, voltage-sensitive dyes (VSDs, Di-4-ANEPPS) and genetically encoded voltage indicators (GEVIs, ASAP1), spatiotemporal dynamics of voltage signals can be detected in the whole cerebellum and spinal cord in awake fish at single-cell and neuronal population levels. Combining this method with other approaches, such as optogenetics, behavioral analysis, and electrophysiology would facilitate a deeper understanding of the network dynamics of the brain circuitry and its development.
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- Kanae Hiyoshi
- Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama City, Japan
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- Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama City, Japan
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- Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama City, Japan
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- Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama City, Japan.,Integrative Research Center for Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Saitama University, Saitama City, Japan
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Tang Q, Tsytsarev V, Yan F, Wang C, Erzurumlu RS, Chen Y. In vivo voltage-sensitive dye imaging of mouse cortical activity with mesoscopic optical tomography. NEUROPHOTONICS 2020; 7:041402. [PMID: 33274250 PMCID: PMC7708784 DOI: 10.1117/1.nph.7.4.041402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2020] [Accepted: 11/11/2020] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Significance: Cellular layering is a hallmark of the mammalian neocortex with layer and cell type-specific connections within the cortical mantle and subcortical connections. A key challenge in studying circuit function within the neocortex is to understand the spatial and temporal patterns of information flow between different columns and layers. Aim: We aimed to investigate the three-dimensional (3D) layer- and area-specific interactions in mouse cortex in vivo. Approach: We applied a new promising neuroimaging method-fluorescence laminar optical tomography in combination with voltage-sensitive dye imaging (VSDi). VSDi is a powerful technique for interrogating membrane potential dynamics in assemblies of cortical neurons, but it is traditionally used for two-dimensional (2D) imaging. Our mesoscopic technique allows visualization of neuronal activity in a 3D manner with high temporal resolution. Results: We first demonstrated the depth-resolved capability of 3D mesoscopic imaging technology in Thy1-ChR2-YFP transgenic mice. Next, we recorded the long-range functional projections between sensory cortex (S1) and motor cortex (M1) in mice, in vivo, following single whisker deflection. Conclusions: The results show that mesoscopic imaging technique has the potential to investigate the layer-specific neural connectivity in the mouse cortex in vivo. Combination of mesoscopic imaging technique with optogenetic control strategy is a promising platform for determining depth-resolved interactions between cortical circuit elements.
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- Qinggong Tang
- University of Oklahoma, Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, Norman, Oklahoma, United States
- University of Maryland, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, College Park, Maryland, United States
- Address all correspondence to Qinggong Tang, ; Reha S. Erzurumlu, ; Yu Chen,
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- University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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- University of Oklahoma, Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, Norman, Oklahoma, United States
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- University of Oklahoma, Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, Norman, Oklahoma, United States
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- University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Address all correspondence to Qinggong Tang, ; Reha S. Erzurumlu, ; Yu Chen,
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- University of Maryland, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, College Park, Maryland, United States
- University of Massachusetts, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
- Address all correspondence to Qinggong Tang, ; Reha S. Erzurumlu, ; Yu Chen,
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Acker CD, Yan P, Loew LM. Recent progress in optical voltage-sensor technology and applications to cardiac research: from single cells to whole hearts. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2020; 154:3-10. [PMID: 31474387 PMCID: PMC7048644 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2019.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2019] [Revised: 07/16/2019] [Accepted: 07/31/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The first workshop on Novel Optics-based approaches for Cardiac Electrophysiology (NOtiCE) was held in Florence Italy in 2018. Here, we learned how optical approaches have shaped our basic understanding of cardiac electrophysiology and how new technologies and approaches are being developed and validated to advance the field. Several technologies are being developed that may one day allow for new clinical approaches for diagnosing cardiac disorders and possibly intervening to treat human patients. In this review, we discuss several technologies and approaches to optical voltage imaging with voltage-sensitive dyes. We highlight the development and application of fluorinated and long wavelength voltage-sensitive dyes. These optical voltage sensors have now been applied and well validated in several different assays from cultured human stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes to whole hearts in-vivo. Imaging concepts such as dual wavelength ratiometric techniques, which are crucial to maximizing the information from optical sensors by increasing the useful signal and eliminating noise and artifacts, are presented. Finally, novel voltage sensors including photoacoustic voltage-sensitive dyes, their current capabilities and potential advantages, are introduced.
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- Corey D Acker
- R. D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 400 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA.
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- R. D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 400 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA
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- R. D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, 400 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, CT, 06030, USA
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Kurtaliev EN, Nizomov NN, Yarmukhamedov AS. Spectral-luminescent and photochemical characteristics of some styrylcyanine dyes in solutions. J Mol Struct 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2019.127395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Collot M, Boutant E, Fam KT, Danglot L, Klymchenko AS. Molecular Tuning of Styryl Dyes Leads to Versatile and Efficient Plasma Membrane Probes for Cell and Tissue Imaging. Bioconjug Chem 2020; 31:875-883. [PMID: 32053748 DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.0c00023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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The plasma membrane (PM) plays a major role in many biological processes; therefore, its proper fluorescence staining is required in bioimaging. Among the commercially available PM probes, styryl dye FM1-43 is one of the most widely used. In this work, we demonstrated that fine chemical modifications of FM1-43 can dramatically improve the PM staining. The newly developed probes, SP-468 and SQ-535, were found to display enhanced photophysical properties (reduced cross-talk, higher brightness, improved photostability) and, unlike FM1-43, provided excellent and immediate PM staining in 5 different mammalian cell types including neurons (primary culture and tissue imaging). Taking advantage of these features, we successfully used SP-468 in STED super resolution neuronal imaging. Additionally, we showed that the new probes displayed differences in their internalization pathways compared to their parent FM1-43. Finally, we showed that the new probes kept the ability to stain the PM of plant cells. Overall, this work presents new useful probes for PM imaging in cells and tissues and provides insights on the molecular design of new PM targeting molecules.
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- Mayeul Collot
- Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies, UMR 7021, CNRS, University of Strasbourg, FR 67401 Illkirch, France
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- Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies, UMR 7021, CNRS, University of Strasbourg, FR 67401 Illkirch, France
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- Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies, UMR 7021, CNRS, University of Strasbourg, FR 67401 Illkirch, France
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- Université de Paris, Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Paris (IPNP), INSERM U1266, "Membrane Traffic in Healthy and Diseased Brain", F 75014 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies, UMR 7021, CNRS, University of Strasbourg, FR 67401 Illkirch, France
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Nesmith HW, Zhang H, Rogers JM. Optical mapping of electromechanics in intact organs. Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 2019; 245:368-373. [PMID: 31842618 DOI: 10.1177/1535370219894942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Optical mapping has become a widely used and important method in cardiac electrophysiology. The method typically uses voltage-sensitive fluorescent dyes and high-speed cameras to image propagation of electrical waves. However, signals are highly susceptible to artifact caused by motion of the target organ. Consequently, cardiac optical mapping is traditionally performed in isolated, perfused organs whose contraction has been pharmacologically arrested. This has prevented optical mapping from being used to study interactions between electrical and mechanical motion. However, recently, a number of groups have developed methods to implement cardiac optical mapping in the presence of motion. These methods employ two basic strategies: (1) compensate for motion by measuring it or (2) ratiometry. In ratiometry, two signals are recorded from each site. The signals have differing sensitivity to membrane potential, but common motion artifact, which can be cancelled by taking the ratio of the two signals. Some methods use both of these strategies. Methods that measure motion have the additional advantage that this information can be used to quantify the organ’s mechanical function. Doing so enables combined “electromechanical mapping,” which allows optical study of electromechanical interactions. By allowing recording in the presence of motion, the new methods open the door to optical recording in in-vivo preparations. In addition, it is possible to implement electromechanical optical mapping techniques in organ systems other than the heart. For example, it was recently shown that optical mapping of slow wave propagation in the swine stomach is feasible. Such studies have the potential to uncover new information on the role of dysrhythmic slow wave propagation in gastric motility disorders. Impact statement Electrical and mechanical functions in the heart are bidirectionally coupled, yet are usually studied separately because of the different instrumentation technologies that are used in the two areas. Optical mapping is a powerful and widespread tool for imaging electrical propagation, but has traditionally required mechanical function to be arrested. Recently new methods have been devised that enable optical mapping to be performed in beating hearts and also to simultaneously quantify mechanical function. These new technologies promise to yield new information about electromechanical interactions in normal and pathological settings. They are also beginning to find application in other organ systems such as the gastrointestinal tract where they may provide new insight into motility disorders.
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- Haley W Nesmith
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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Optical measurement of neuronal activity in the developing cerebellum of zebrafish using voltage-sensitive dye imaging. Neuroreport 2019; 29:1349-1354. [PMID: 30192301 DOI: 10.1097/wnr.0000000000001113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Voltage-sensitive dye (VSD) imaging enables fast, direct, and simultaneous detection of membrane potentials from a population of neurons forming neuronal circuits. This enables the detection of hyperpolarization together with depolarization, whose balance plays a pivotal role in the function of many brain regions. Among these is the cerebellum, which contains a significant number of inhibitory neurons. However, the mechanism underlying the functional development remains unclear. In this study, we used a model system ideal to study neurogenesis by applying VSD imaging to the cerebellum of zebrafish larvae to analyze the neuronal activity of the developing cerebellum, focusing on both excitation and inhibition. We performed in-vivo high-speed imaging of the entire cerebellum of the zebrafish, which was stained using Di-4-ANEPPS, a widely used VSD. To examine whether neuronal activity in the zebrafish cerebellum could be detected by this VSD, we applied electrical stimulation during VSD imaging, which showed that depolarization was detected widely in the cerebellum upon stimulation. These responses mostly disappeared following treatment with tetrodotoxin, indicating that Di-4-ANEPPS enabled optical measurement of neuronal activity in the developing cerebellum of zebrafish. Moreover, hyperpolarizing signals were also detected upon stimulation, but these were significantly reduced by treatment with picrotoxin, a GABAA receptor inhibitor, indicating that these responses represent inhibitory signals. This approach will enable a detailed analysis of the spatiotemporal dynamics of the excitation and inhibition in the cerebellum along its developmental stages, leading to a deeper understanding of the functional development of the cerebellum in vertebrates.
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Voltage sensitive dyes (VSDs) are used for in vitro drug screening and for imaging of patterns of electrical activity in tissue. Wide application of this technology depends on the availability of sensors with high sensitivity (percent change of fluorescence per 100 mV), high fluorescence quantum yield, and fast response kinetics. A promising approach uses a two-component system consisting of anionic membrane permeable quenchers with fluorophores labeling one side of the membrane; this produces voltage-dependent fluorescence quenching. However, the quencher must be kept at low concentrations to minimize pharmacological effects, thus limiting sensitivity. By developing tethered bichromophoric fluorophore quencher (TBFQ) dyes, where the fluorophore and quencher are covalently connected by a long hydrophobic chain, the sensitivity is maximized and is independent of VSD concentration. A series of 13 TBFQ dyes based on the aminonaphthylethenylpyridinium (ANEP) fluorophore and the dipicrylamine anion (DPA) quencher have been synthesized and tested in an artificial lipid bilayer apparatus. The best of these, TBFQ1, shows a 2.5-fold change in fluorescence per 100 mV change in membrane potential, and the response kinetics is in the 10-20 ms range. This sensitivity is an order of magnitude better than that of commonly used VSDs. However, the fluorescence quantum yield is only 1.6%, which may make this first generation of TBFQ VSDs impractical for in vivo electrical imaging. Nevertheless, the design principles established here can serve as foundation for improved TBFQ VSDs. We believe this approach promises to greatly enhance our ability to monitor electrical activity in cells and tissues.
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- Ping Yan
- Richard D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut 06030, United States
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- Richard D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut 06030, United States
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- Richard D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut 06030, United States
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Bhagwat AA, Sekar N. 2-(1,1-dioxidobenzo[b]thiophen-3(2H)-ylidene)malononitrile (BTD) Based Styryl Chromophores- Solvatochomic and Computational Investigation of Linear and NLO properties. ChemistrySelect 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.201803256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Archana A. Bhagwat
- Dyestuff Technology Department; Institute of Chemical Technology, Nathalal Parekh Marg, Matunga; Mumbai 400019 India
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- Dyestuff Technology Department; Institute of Chemical Technology, Nathalal Parekh Marg, Matunga; Mumbai 400019 India
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Optical interrogation of neuronal circuitry in zebrafish using genetically encoded voltage indicators. Sci Rep 2018; 8:6048. [PMID: 29662090 PMCID: PMC5902623 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-23906-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2017] [Accepted: 03/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Optical measurement of membrane potentials enables fast, direct and simultaneous detection of membrane potentials from a population of neurons, providing a desirable approach for functional analysis of neuronal circuits. Here, we applied recently developed genetically encoded voltage indicators, ASAP1 (Accelerated Sensor of Action Potentials 1) and QuasAr2 (Quality superior to Arch 2), to zebrafish, an ideal model system for studying neurogenesis. To achieve this, we established transgenic lines which express the voltage sensors, and showed that ASAP1 is expressed in zebrafish neurons. To examine whether neuronal activity could be detected by ASAP1, we performed whole-cerebellum imaging, showing that depolarization was detected widely in the cerebellum and optic tectum upon electrical stimulation. Spontaneous activity in the spinal cord was also detected by ASAP1 imaging at single-cell resolution as well as at the neuronal population level. These responses mostly disappeared following treatment with tetrodotoxin, indicating that ASAP1 enabled optical measurement of neuronal activity in the zebrafish brain. Combining this method with other approaches, such as optogenetics and behavioural analysis may facilitate a deeper understanding of the functional organization of brain circuitry and its development.
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Organic nanoparticles of an extended π-conjugated styryl dye: Modulation of fluorescence peak energy and intensity in the near-infrared (NIR) region. J Photochem Photobiol A Chem 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2016.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Hubenova Y, Bakalska R, Hubenova E, Mitov M. Mechanisms of electron transfer between a styrylquinolinium dye and yeast in biofuel cell. Bioelectrochemistry 2016; 112:158-65. [PMID: 26924617 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2016.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2015] [Revised: 02/12/2016] [Accepted: 02/17/2016] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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In the present study, the influence of the recently synthesized styrylquinolinium dye 4-{(E)-2-[4-(dimethylamino)naphthalen-1-yl]ethenyl}-1-methylquinolinium iodide (DANSQI) on the intracellular processes as well as the electrical outputs of Candida melibiosica 2491 yeast-based biofuel cell was investigated. The addition of nanomolar quantities of DANSQI to the yeast suspension results in an increase of the current outputs right after the startup of the biofuel cells, associated with an electrooxidation of the dye on the anode. After that, the formed cation radical of the dye penetrates the yeast cells, provoking a set of intracellular changes. Studies of the subcellular anolyte fractions show that 1μM dye increased the peroxisomal catalase activity 30-times (1.15±0.06Unit/mg protein) and over twice the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase activity (92±5Unit/mg protein). The results obtained by electrochemical and spectrophotometric analyses let to the supposition that the dye acts as subcellular shuttle, on account of its specific intramolecular charge transfer properties. The transition between its benzoid, quinolyl radical and ion forms and their putative role for the extracellular and intracellular charge transfer mechanisms are discussed.
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- Yolina Hubenova
- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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- Innovative Center of Eco Energy Technologies, South-West University "Neofit Rilski", Bulgaria
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López-Duarte I, Chairatana P, Wu Y, Pérez-Moreno J, Bennett PM, Reeve JE, Boczarow I, Kaluza W, Hosny NA, Stranks SD, Nicholas RJ, Clays K, Kuimova MK, Anderson HL. Thiophene-based dyes for probing membranes. Org Biomol Chem 2015; 13:3792-802. [PMID: 25703541 DOI: 10.1039/c4ob02507e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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We report the synthesis of four new cationic dipolar push–pull dyes, together with an evaluation of their photophysical and photobiological characteristics pertinent to imaging membranes by fluorescence and second harmonic generation (SHG). All four dyes consist of an N,N-diethylaniline electron-donor conjugated to a pyridinium electron-acceptor via a thiophene bridge, with either vinylene (–CH=CH–) or ethynylene (–C≡C–) linking groups, and with either singly-charged or doubly-charged pyridinium terminals. The absorption and fluorescence behavior of these dyes were compared to a commercially available fluorescent membrane stain, the styryl dye FM4-64. The hyperpolarizabilities of all dyes were compared using hyper-Rayleigh scattering at 800 nm. Cellular uptake, localization, toxicity and phototoxicity were evaluated using tissue cell cultures (HeLa, SK-OV-3 and MDA-231). Replacing the central alkene bridge of FM4-64 with a thiophene does not substantially change the absorption, fluorescence or hyperpolarizability, whereas changing the vinylene-links to ethynylenes shifts the absorption and fluorescence to shorter wavelengths, and reduces the hyperpolarizability by about a factor of two. SHG and fluorescence imaging experiments in live cells showed that the doubly-charged thiophene dyes localize in plasma membranes, and exhibit lower internalization rates compared to FM4-64, resulting in less signal from the cell cytosol. At a typical imaging concentration of 1 μM, the doubly-charged dyes showed no significant light or dark toxicity, whereas the singly-charged dyes are phototoxic even at 0.5 μM. The doubly-charged dyes showed phototoxicity at concentrations greater than 10 μM, although they do not generate singlet oxygen, indicating that the phototoxicity is type I rather than type II. The doubly-charged thiophene dyes are more effective than FM4-64 as SHG dyes for live cells.
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- Ismael López-Duarte
- Department of Chemistry, Oxford University, Chemistry Research Laboratory, Oxford, UK OX1 3TA.
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Foust AJ, Zampini V, Tanese D, Papagiakoumou E, Emiliani V. Computer-generated holography enhances voltage dye fluorescence discrimination in adjacent neuronal structures. NEUROPHOTONICS 2015; 2:021007. [PMID: 26157998 PMCID: PMC4478842 DOI: 10.1117/1.nph.2.2.021007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2014] [Accepted: 12/05/2014] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Voltage-sensitive fluorescence indicators enable tracking neuronal electrical signals simultaneously in multiple neurons or neuronal subcompartments difficult to access with patch electrodes. However, efficient widefield epifluorescence detection of rapid voltage fluorescence transients necessitates that imaged cells and structures lie sufficiently far from other labeled structures to avoid contamination from out of focal plane and scattered light. We overcame this limitation by exciting dye fluorescence with one-photon computer-generated holography shapes contoured to axons or dendrites of interest, enabling widefield detection of voltage fluorescence with high spatial specificity. By shaping light onto neighboring axons and dendrites, we observed that dendritic back-propagating action potentials were broader and slowly rising compared with axonal action potentials, differences not measured in the same structures illuminated with a large "pseudowidefield" (pWF) spot of the same excitation density. Shaped illumination trials showed reduced baseline fluorescence, higher baseline noise, and fractional fluorescence transient amplitudes two times greater than trials acquired with pWF illumination of the same regions.
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- Amanda J. Foust
- Paris Descartes University, Biomedical and Fundamental Science Faculty, Wavefront-Engineering Microscopy Group, Neurophotonics Laboratory, CNRS UMR8250, 45, rue des Saints Pères, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France
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- Paris Descartes University, Biomedical and Fundamental Science Faculty, Wavefront-Engineering Microscopy Group, Neurophotonics Laboratory, CNRS UMR8250, 45, rue des Saints Pères, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France
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- Paris Descartes University, Biomedical and Fundamental Science Faculty, Wavefront-Engineering Microscopy Group, Neurophotonics Laboratory, CNRS UMR8250, 45, rue des Saints Pères, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France
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- Paris Descartes University, Biomedical and Fundamental Science Faculty, Wavefront-Engineering Microscopy Group, Neurophotonics Laboratory, CNRS UMR8250, 45, rue des Saints Pères, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France
- INSERM, 45, rue des Saints Pères, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France
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- Paris Descartes University, Biomedical and Fundamental Science Faculty, Wavefront-Engineering Microscopy Group, Neurophotonics Laboratory, CNRS UMR8250, 45, rue des Saints Pères, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France
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Lo SQ, Koh DXP, Sng JCG, Augustine GJ. All-optical mapping of barrel cortex circuits based on simultaneous voltage-sensitive dye imaging and channelrhodopsin-mediated photostimulation. NEUROPHOTONICS 2015; 2:021013. [PMID: 26158003 PMCID: PMC4478985 DOI: 10.1117/1.nph.2.2.021013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2014] [Accepted: 03/04/2015] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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We describe an experimental approach that uses light to both control and detect neuronal activity in mouse barrel cortex slices: blue light patterned by a digital micromirror array system allowed us to photostimulate specific layers and columns, while a red-shifted voltage-sensitive dye was used to map out large-scale circuit activity. We demonstrate that such all-optical mapping can interrogate various circuits in somatosensory cortex by sequentially activating different layers and columns. Further, mapping in slices from whisker-deprived mice demonstrated that chronic sensory deprivation did not significantly alter feedforward inhibition driven by layer 5 pyramidal neurons. Further development of voltage-sensitive optical probes should allow this all-optical mapping approach to become an important and high-throughput tool for mapping circuit interactions in the brain.
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- Shun Qiang Lo
- National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Department of Physiology, Singapore 117597, Singapore
- Nanyang Technological University, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Proteos, Biopolis, Level 4, 61 Biopolis Drive, #04-06/07, Singapore 138673, Singapore
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR, Proteos, 61 Biopolis Drive, Proteos, Singapore 138673, Singapore
- Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, United States
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- National University of Singapore, Graduate School of Integrative Sciences and Engineering, Singapore 117456, Singapore
- National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Singapore 117599, Singapore
- Singapore Institute of Clinical Sciences (SICS), A*STAR, Brenner Centre for Molecular Medicine, 30 Medical Drive, Singapore 117609, Singapore
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- National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Singapore 117599, Singapore
- Singapore Institute of Clinical Sciences (SICS), A*STAR, Brenner Centre for Molecular Medicine, 30 Medical Drive, Singapore 117609, Singapore
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- National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Department of Physiology, Singapore 117597, Singapore
- Nanyang Technological University, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Proteos, Biopolis, Level 4, 61 Biopolis Drive, #04-06/07, Singapore 138673, Singapore
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR, Proteos, 61 Biopolis Drive, Proteos, Singapore 138673, Singapore
- Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, United States
- Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Center for Functional Connectomics, 39-1 Hawolgokdong, Seongbukgu, Seoul 136-791, Republic of Korea
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Demchenko AP, Duportail G, Oncul S, Klymchenko AS, Mély Y. Introduction to fluorescence probing of biological membranes. Methods Mol Biol 2015; 1232:19-43. [PMID: 25331125 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1752-5_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Fluorescence is one of the most powerful and commonly used tools in biophysical studies of biomembrane structure and dynamics that can be applied on different levels, from lipid monolayers and bilayers to living cells, tissues, and whole animals. Successful application of this method relies on proper design of fluorescence probes with optimized photophysical properties. These probes are efficient for studying the microscopic analogs of viscosity, polarity, and hydration, as well as the molecular order, environment relaxation, and electrostatic potentials at the sites of their location. Being smaller than the membrane width they can sense the gradients of these parameters across the membrane. We present examples of novel dyes that achieve increased spatial resolution and information content of the probe responses. In this respect, multiparametric environment-sensitive probes feature considerable promise.
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- Alexander P Demchenko
- Palladin Institute of Biochemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 9 Leontovicha Street, Kiev, 01030, Ukraine,
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Jaafari N, Vogt KE, Saggau P, Leslie LM, Zecevic D, Canepari M. Combining Membrane Potential Imaging with Other Optical Techniques. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2015; 859:103-25. [PMID: 26238050 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-17641-3_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Membrane potential imaging using voltage-sensitive dyes can be combined with other optical techniques for a variety of applications. Combining voltage imaging with Ca2+ imaging allows correlating membrane potential changes with intracellular Ca2+ signals or with Ca2+ currents. Combining voltage imaging with uncaging techniques allows analyzing electrical signals elicited by photorelease of a particular molecule. This approach is also a useful tool to calibrate the change in fluorescence intensity in terms of membrane potential changes from different sites permitting spatial mapping of electrical activity. Finally, combining voltage imaging with optogenetics, in particular with channelrhodopsin stimulation, opens the gate to novel investigations of brain circuitries by allowing measurements of synaptic signals mediated by specific sets of neurons. Here we describe in detail the methods of membrane potential imaging in combination with other optical techniques and discus some important applications.
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- Nadia Jaafari
- Inserm U836, Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience, Team 3, Grenoble Cedex 09, France
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Loew LM. Design and Use of Organic Voltage Sensitive Dyes. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2015; 859:27-53. [PMID: 26238048 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-17641-3_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The chemistry and the physics of voltage sensitive dyes (VSDs) should be understood and appreciated as a prerequisite for their optimal application to problems in neuroscience cardiology. This chapter provides a basic understanding of the properties of the large variety of available organic VSDs. The mechanisms by which the dyes respond to voltage guides the best set up of the optics for recording or imaging electrophysiological activity. The physical and chemical properties of the dyes can be tuned to optimize delivery to and staining of the cells in different experimental preparations. The aim of this chapter is to arm the experimentalists who use the dyes with enough information and data to be able to intelligently choose the best dye for their specific requirements.
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- Leslie M Loew
- Department of Cell Biology, R. D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, 06030-6406, USA,
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Imaging Submillisecond Membrane Potential Changes from Individual Regions of Single Axons, Dendrites and Spines. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2015; 859:57-101. [PMID: 26238049 PMCID: PMC5671121 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-17641-3_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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A central question in neuronal network analysis is how the interaction between individual neurons produces behavior and behavioral modifications. This task depends critically on how exactly signals are integrated by individual nerve cells functioning as complex operational units. Regional electrical properties of branching neuronal processes which determine the input-output function of any neuron are extraordinarily complex, dynamic, and, in the general case, impossible to predict in the absence of detailed measurements. To obtain such a measurement one would, ideally, like to be able to monitor, at multiple sites, subthreshold events as they travel from the sites of origin (synaptic contacts on distal dendrites) and summate at particular locations to influence action potential initiation. It became possible recently to carry out this type of measurement using high-resolution multisite recording of membrane potential changes with intracellular voltage-sensitive dyes. This chapter reviews the development and foundation of the method of voltage-sensitive dye recording from individual neurons. Presently, this approach allows monitoring membrane potential transients from all parts of the dendritic tree as well as from axon collaterals and individual dendritic spines.
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Willadt S, Canepari M, Yan P, Loew LM, Vogt KE. Combined optogenetics and voltage sensitive dye imaging at single cell resolution. Front Cell Neurosci 2014; 8:311. [PMID: 25339864 PMCID: PMC4189389 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2014] [Accepted: 09/17/2014] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Information processing in the central nervous system makes use of densely woven networks of neurons with complex dendritic and axonal arborizations. Studying signaling in such a network requires precise control over the activity of specific neurons and an understanding how the synaptic signals are integrated. We established a system using a recently published red-shifted voltage sensitive dye in slices from mice expressing channelrhodopsin (Ch) in GABAergic neurons. Using a focused 473 nm laser for Ch activation and 635 nm laser wide field illumination for voltage sensitive dye excitation we were able to simultaneously measure dendritic voltage transients and stimulate inhibitory synaptic connections. The combination of these techniques provides excellent spatiotemporal control over neuron activation and high resolution information on dendritic signal processing.
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- Silvia Willadt
- Neurobiology/Pharmacology, Biozentrum, University of Basel Basel, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire Interdisciplinare de Physique (CNRS UMR 5588) and Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences (Inserm U836) Grenoble, France
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- R. D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, University of Connecticut Health Center Farmington, CT, USA
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- R. D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, University of Connecticut Health Center Farmington, CT, USA
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- Neurobiology/Pharmacology, Biozentrum, University of Basel Basel, Switzerland ; International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (IIIS), University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan
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Wilson SA, Millard A, Lewis A, Loew LM. Monitoring membrane potential with second-harmonic generation. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2014; 2014:643-654. [PMID: 24890213 DOI: 10.1101/pdb.prot081786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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This protocol describes the nonlinear optical phenomenon known as second-harmonic generation (SHG) and discusses its special attributes for imaging membrane-potential changes in single cells and multicellular preparations. Undifferentiated N1E-115 mouse neuroblastoma cells are used as a model cellular system for membrane electrophysiology. Styryl and naphthylstyryl dyes, also known as hemicyanines, are a class of electrochromic membrane-staining probes that have been used to monitor membrane potential by fluorescence; they also produce SHG images of cell membranes with SHG intensities that are sensitive to voltage. These experiments allow for the precise characterization of the voltage sensitivity of SHG and identification of the optimal wavelength for the incident laser fundamental light. This protocol presents the steps for the culture, staining, patching, and imaging of cells. The details of the imaging system and the measurements obtained are discussed, as are the prospects of this technology for imaging membrane potential changes in neuronal preparations.
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Patti J, Isacoff EY. Measuring membrane voltage with fluorescent proteins. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2013; 2013:606-13. [PMID: 23818671 DOI: 10.1101/pdb.top075804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Measuring signal transduction in large numbers of cells with high spatial and temporal resolution is fundamental to studying information processing in the nervous system. DNA-encoded sensors have an advantage in that they can be introduced into an organism noninvasively and targeted to specific brain regions, cell types, or subcellular compartments. A variety of chimeric proteins that report transmembrane voltage have been developed. The prototype sensor, FlaSh, is a green fluorescent protein fused to a voltage-sensitive K(+) channel, where voltage-dependent rearrangements in the channel induce changes in the protein's fluorescence. Subsequent sensors have refined this basic design using a monomeric voltage-sensing phosphatase domain from Ciona intestinalis and pairs of fluorescent proteins to produce a larger fluorescent signal. These sensors and their uses are discussed here.
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Dal Molin M, Matile S. 3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene in planarizable push-pull oligothiophenes. Org Biomol Chem 2013; 11:1952-7. [PMID: 23389656 DOI: 10.1039/c3ob27471c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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We report design, synthesis and evaluation of push-pull quaterthiophene amphiphiles containing one 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) and a single strong twist in the scaffold. Planarizable push-pull oligothiophene amphiphiles have been introduced recently as conceptually innovative fluorescent probes that sense the fluidity and the potential of lipid bilayer membranes. The "hyper-twisted" EDOT probes respond to planarization and restricted rotational freedom with a red shift and changes in vibrational finestructure in the excitation spectrum, respectively. In solution, comparably weak solvatochromism and significant thermochromism are found. Planarization and restricted rotational freedom afford exquisite sensitivity toward nature and fluidity of lipid bilayer membranes, including ratiometric detection of phase transitions. The sensing of membrane potentials is weakened by these unique properties but remains possible.
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- Marta Dal Molin
- Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Aseyev N, Roshchin M, Ierusalimsky VN, Balaban PM, Nikitin ES. Biolistic delivery of voltage-sensitive dyes for fast recording of membrane potential changes in individual neurons in rat brain slices. J Neurosci Methods 2013; 212:17-27. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2012.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2012] [Revised: 09/03/2012] [Accepted: 09/05/2012] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Optical recording of membrane potential permits spatially resolved measurement of electrical activity in subcellular regions of single cells, which would be inaccessible to electrodes, and imaging of spatiotemporal patterns of action potential propagation in excitable tissues, such as the brain or heart. However, the available voltage-sensitive dyes (VSDs) are not always spectrally compatible with newly available optical technologies for sensing or manipulating the physiological state of a system. Here, we describe a series of 19 fluorinated VSDs based on the hemicyanine class of chromophores. Strategic placement of the fluorine atoms on the chromophores can result in either blue or red shifts in the absorbance and emission spectra. The range of one-photon excitation wavelengths afforded by these new VSDs spans 440-670 nm; the two-photon excitation range is 900-1,340 nm. The emission of each VSD is shifted by at least 100 nm to the red of its one-photon excitation spectrum. The set of VSDs, thus, affords an extended toolkit for optical recording to match a broad range of experimental requirements. We show the sensitivity to voltage and the photostability of the new VSDs in a series of experimental preparations ranging in scale from single dendritic spines to whole heart. Among the advances shown in these applications are simultaneous recording of voltage and calcium in single dendritic spines and optical electrophysiology recordings using two-photon excitation above 1,100 nm.
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Kanaporis G, Martišienė I, Jurevičius J, Vosyliūtė R, Navalinskas A, Treinys R, Matiukas A, Pertsov AM. Optical mapping at increased illumination intensities. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2012; 17:96007-1. [PMID: 23085908 PMCID: PMC3602814 DOI: 10.1117/1.jbo.17.9.096007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2012] [Revised: 07/19/2012] [Accepted: 08/14/2012] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Voltage-sensitive fluorescent dyes have become a major tool in cardiac and neuro-electrophysiology. Achieving high signal-to-noise ratios requires increased illumination intensities, which may cause photobleaching and phototoxicity. The optimal range of illumination intensities varies for different dyes and must be evaluated individually. We evaluate two dyes: di-4-ANBDQBS (excitation 660 nm) and di-4-ANEPPS (excitation 532 nm) in the guinea pig heart. The light intensity varies from 0.1 to 5 mW/mm2, with the upper limit at 5 to 10 times above values reported in the literature. The duration of illumination was 60 s, which in guinea pigs corresponds to 300 beats at a normal heart rate. Within the identified duration and intensity range, neither dye shows significant photobleaching or detectable phototoxic effects. However, light absorption at higher intensities causes noticeable tissue heating, which affects the electrophysiological parameters. The most pronounced effect is a shortening of the action potential duration, which, in the case of 532-nm excitation, can reach ∼30%. At 660-nm excitation, the effect is ∼10%. These findings may have important implications for the design of optical mapping protocols in biomedical applications.
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- Giedrius Kanaporis
- Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Cardiology, Laboratory of Membrane Biophysics, 17 Sukilėlių pr, Kaunas 50161, Lithuania
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- Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Cardiology, Laboratory of Membrane Biophysics, 17 Sukilėlių pr, Kaunas 50161, Lithuania
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- Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Cardiology, Laboratory of Membrane Biophysics, 17 Sukilėlių pr, Kaunas 50161, Lithuania
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- Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Cardiology, Laboratory of Membrane Biophysics, 17 Sukilėlių pr, Kaunas 50161, Lithuania
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- Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Cardiology, Laboratory of Membrane Biophysics, 17 Sukilėlių pr, Kaunas 50161, Lithuania
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- Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Cardiology, Laboratory of Membrane Biophysics, 17 Sukilėlių pr, Kaunas 50161, Lithuania
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- SUNY Upstate Medical University, Department of Pharmacology, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, New York 13210
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- Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Cardiology, Laboratory of Membrane Biophysics, 17 Sukilėlių pr, Kaunas 50161, Lithuania
- SUNY Upstate Medical University, Department of Pharmacology, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, New York 13210
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Matson M, Carlsson N, Beke-Somfai T, Nordén B. Spectral properties and orientation of voltage-sensitive dyes in lipid membranes. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2012; 28:10808-10817. [PMID: 22738247 DOI: 10.1021/la301726w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Voltage-sensitive dyes are frequently used for probing variations in the electric potential across cell membranes. The dyes respond by changing their spectral properties: measured as shifts of wavelength of absorption or emission maxima or as changes of absorption or fluorescence intensity. Although such probes have been studied and used for decades, the mechanism behind their voltage sensitivity is still obscure. We ask whether the voltage response is due to electrochromism as a result of direct field interaction on the chromophore or to solvatochromism, which is the focus of this study, as result of changed environment or molecular alignment in the membrane. The spectral properties of three styryl dyes, di-4-ANEPPS, di-8-ANEPPS, and RH421, were investigated in solvents of varying polarity and in model membranes using spectroscopy. Using quantum mechanical calculations, the spectral dependence of monomer and dimer ANEPPS on solvent properties was modeled. Also, the kinetics of binding to lipid membranes and the binding geometry of the probe molecules were found relevant to address. The spectral properties of all three probes were found to be highly sensitive to the local environment, and the probes are oriented nearly parallel with the membrane normal. Slow binding kinetics and scattering in absorption spectra indicate, especially for di-8-ANEPPS, involvement of aggregation. On the basis of the experimental spectra and time-dependent density functional theory calculations, we find that aggregate formation may contribute to the blue-shifts seen for the dyes in decanol and when bound to membrane models. In conclusion, solvatochromic and other intermolecular interactions effects also need to be included when considering electrochromic response voltage-sensitive dyes.
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- Maria Matson
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden
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Doval DA, Fin A, Takahashi-Umebayashi M, Riezman H, Roux A, Sakai N, Matile S. Amphiphilic dynamic NDI and PDI probes: imaging microdomains in giant unilamellar vesicles. Org Biomol Chem 2012; 10:6087-93. [DOI: 10.1039/c2ob25119a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Klymchenko AS, Duportail G, Mély Y. 3-Hydroxychromone Probes Precisely Located and Oriented in Lipid Bilayers: A Toolkit for Biomembrane Research. SPRINGER SERIES ON FLUORESCENCE 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/4243_2012_44] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Gallavardin T, Maurin M, Marotte S, Simon T, Gabudean AM, Bretonnière Y, Lindgren M, Lerouge F, Baldeck PL, Stéphan O, Leverrier Y, Marvel J, Parola S, Maury O, Andraud C. Photodynamic therapy and two-photon bio-imaging applications of hydrophobic chromophores through amphiphilic polymer delivery. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2011; 10:1216-25. [PMID: 21499638 DOI: 10.1039/c0pp00381f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The synthesis and photophysical properties of two lipophilic quadrupolar chromophores featuring anthracenyl (1) or dibromobenzene (2) were described. These two chromophores combined significant two-photon absorption cross-sections with high fluorescence quantum yield for 1 and improved singlet oxygen generation efficiency for 2, in organic solvents. The use of Pluronic nanoparticles allowed a simple and straightforward introduction of these lipophilic chromophores into biological cell media. Their internal distribution in various cell lines was studied using fluorescence microscopy and flow-cytometry following a successful staining that was achieved upon 2 h of incubation. Finally, multiphoton excitation microscopy and photodynamic therapy capability of the chromophores were demonstrated by cell exposure to a 820 nm fs laser and cell death upon one photon resonant irradiation at 436 ± 10 nm, respectively.
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- Thibault Gallavardin
- Université de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5182, Institut de Chimie de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Site Monod, 46 allée d'Italie, 69364, Lyon Cedex 07, France
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Ytzhak S, Wuskell JP, Loew LM, Ehrenberg B. Lipid composition affects the rate of photosensitized dissipation of cross-membrane diffusion potential on liposomes. J Phys Chem B 2010; 114:10097-104. [PMID: 20536150 DOI: 10.1021/jp103355m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Hydrophobic or amphiphilic tetrapyrrole sensitizers are taken up by cells and are usually located in cellular lipid membranes. Singlet oxygen is photogenerated by the sensitizer, and it diffuses in the membrane and causes oxidative damage to membrane components. This damage can occur to membrane lipids and to membrane-localized proteins. Depolarization of the Nernst electric potential on cells' membranes has been observed in cellular photosensitization, but it was not established whether lipid oxidation is a relevant factor leading to abolishing the resting potential of cells' membranes and to their death. In this work, we studied the effect of liposomes' lipid composition on the kinetics of hematoporphyrin-photosensitized dissipation of K(+)-diffusion electric potential that was generated across the membranes. We employed an electrochromic voltage-sensitive spectroscopic probe that possesses a high fluorescence signal response to the potential. We found a correlation between the structure and unsaturation of lipids and the leakage of the membrane, following photosensitization. As the extent of nonconjugated unsaturation of the lipids is increased from 1 to 6 double bonds, the kinetics of depolarization become faster. We also found that the kinetics of depolarization is affected by the percentage of the unsaturated lipids in the liposome: as the fraction of the unsaturated lipids increases, the leakage through the membrane is enhanced. When liposomes are composed of a lipid mixture similar to that of natural membranes and photosensitization is being carried out under usual photodynamic therapy (PDT) conditions, photodamage to the lipids is not likely to cause enhanced permeability of ions through the membrane, which would have been a mechanism that leads to cell death.
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- Shany Ytzhak
- Department of Physics and Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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Bioanalytical tools for single-cell study of exocytosis. Anal Bioanal Chem 2010; 397:3281-304. [PMID: 20521141 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-010-3843-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2010] [Revised: 05/08/2010] [Accepted: 05/11/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Regulated exocytosis is a fundamental biological process used to deliver chemical messengers for cell-cell communication via membrane fusion and content secretion. A plethora of cell types employ this chemical-based communication to achieve crucial functions in many biological systems. Neurons in the brain and platelets in the circulatory system are representative examples utilizing exocytosis for neurotransmission and blood clotting. Single-cell studies of regulated exocytosis in the past several decades have greatly expanded our knowledge of this critical process, from vesicle/granule transport and docking at the early stages of exocytosis to membrane fusion and to eventual chemical messenger secretion. Herein, four main approaches that have been widely used to study single-cell exocytosis will be highlighted, including total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy, capillary electrophoresis, single-cell mass spectrometry, and microelectrochemistry. These techniques are arranged in the order following the route of a vesicle/granule destined for secretion. Within each section, the basic principles and experimental strategies are reviewed and representative examples are given revealing critical spatial, temporal, and chemical information of a secretory vesicle/granule at different stages of its lifetime. Lastly, an analytical chemist's perspective on potential future developments in this exciting field is discussed.
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Electrochromism and Solvatochromism in Fluorescence Response of Organic Dyes: A Nanoscopic View. SPRINGER SERIES ON FLUORESCENCE 2010. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04702-2_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Barsu C, Cheaib R, Chambert S, Queneau Y, Maury O, Cottet D, Wege H, Douady J, Bretonnière Y, Andraud C. Neutral push-pull chromophores for nonlinear optical imaging of cell membranes. Org Biomol Chem 2010; 8:142-50. [DOI: 10.1039/b915654b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Lebeuf R, Férézou I, Rossier J, Arseniyadis S, Cossy J. Straightforward Synthesis of the Near-Infrared Fluorescent Voltage-Sensitive Dye RH1691 and Analogues Thereof. Org Lett 2009; 11:4822-5. [DOI: 10.1021/ol901846g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Raphaël Lebeuf
- Laboratoire de Chimie Organique, ESPCI ParisTech, CNRS, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France, and Fondation Pierre-Gilles de Gennes pour la Recherche, 29 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Organique, ESPCI ParisTech, CNRS, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France, and Fondation Pierre-Gilles de Gennes pour la Recherche, 29 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Organique, ESPCI ParisTech, CNRS, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France, and Fondation Pierre-Gilles de Gennes pour la Recherche, 29 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Organique, ESPCI ParisTech, CNRS, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France, and Fondation Pierre-Gilles de Gennes pour la Recherche, 29 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Organique, ESPCI ParisTech, CNRS, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France, and Fondation Pierre-Gilles de Gennes pour la Recherche, 29 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
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Attin M, Clusin WT. Basic concepts of optical mapping techniques in cardiac electrophysiology. Biol Res Nurs 2009; 11:195-207. [PMID: 19617237 DOI: 10.1177/1099800409338516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Optical mapping is a tool used in cardiac electrophysiology to study the heart's normal rhythm and arrhythmias. The optical mapping technique provides a unique opportunity to obtain membrane potential recordings with a higher temporal and spatial resolution than electrical mapping. Additionally, it allows simultaneous recording of membrane potential and calcium transients in the whole heart. This article presents the basic concepts of optical mapping techniques as an introduction for students and investigators in experimental laboratories unfamiliar with it.
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- Mina Attin
- College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA.
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Demchenko AP, Mély Y, Duportail G, Klymchenko AS. Monitoring biophysical properties of lipid membranes by environment-sensitive fluorescent probes. Biophys J 2009; 96:3461-70. [PMID: 19413953 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 301] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2009] [Revised: 02/11/2009] [Accepted: 02/17/2009] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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We review the main trends in the development of fluorescence probes to obtain information about the structure, dynamics, and interactions in biomembranes. These probes are efficient for studying the microscopic analogs of viscosity, polarity, and hydration, as well as the molecular order, environment relaxation, and electrostatic potentials at the sites of their location. Progress is being made in increasing the information content and spatial resolution of the probe responses. Multichannel environment-sensitive probes that can distinguish between different membrane physicochemical properties through multiple spectroscopic parameters show considerable promise.
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Demchenko AP, Yesylevskyy SO. Nanoscopic description of biomembrane electrostatics: results of molecular dynamics simulations and fluorescence probing. Chem Phys Lipids 2009; 160:63-84. [PMID: 19481071 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2009.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2009] [Revised: 05/18/2009] [Accepted: 05/19/2009] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Electrostatic fields generated on and inside biological membranes are recognized to play a fundamental role in key processes of cell functioning. Their understanding requires an adequate description on the level of elementary charges and the reconstruction of electrostatic potentials by integration over all elementary interactions. Out of all the available research tools, only molecular dynamics simulations are capable of this, extending from the atomic to the mesoscopic level of description on the required time and space scale. A complementary approach is that offered by molecular probe methods, with the application of electrochromic dyes. Highly sensitive to intermolecular interactions, they generate integrated signals arising from electric fields produced by elementary charges at the sites of their location. This review is an attempt to provide a critical analysis of these two approaches and their present and potential applications. The results obtained by both methods are consistent in that they both show an extremely complex profile of the electric field in the membrane. The nanoscopic view, with two-dimensional averaging over the bilayer plane and formal separation of the electrostatic potential into surface (Psi(s)), dipole (Psi(d)) and transmembrane (Psi(t)) potentials, is constructive in the analysis of different functional properties of membranes.
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- Alexander P Demchenko
- A.V. Palladin Institute of Biochemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Leontovicha St. 9, Kiev 01601, Ukraine.
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Kee MZL, Wuskell JP, Loew LM, Augustine GJ, Sekino Y. Imaging activity of neuronal populations with new long-wavelength voltage-sensitive dyes. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009; 36:157-72. [PMID: 19219551 DOI: 10.1007/s11068-009-9039-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2008] [Revised: 12/30/2008] [Accepted: 01/05/2009] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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We have assessed the utility of five new long-wavelength fluorescent voltage-sensitive dyes (VSD) for imaging the activity of populations of neurons in mouse brain slices. Although all the five were capable of detecting activity resulting from activation of the Schaffer collateral-CA1 pyramidal cell synapse, they differed significantly in their properties, most notably in the signal-to-noise ratio of the changes in dye fluorescence associated with neuronal activity. Two of these dyes, Di-2-ANBDQPQ and Di-1-APEFEQPQ, should prove particularly useful for imaging activity in brain tissue and for combining VSD imaging with the control of neuronal activity via light-activated proteins such as channelrhodopsin-2 and halorhodopsin.
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- Michelle Z L Kee
- Laboratory of Synaptic Circuitry, Program in Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, 2 Jalan Bukit Merah, Singapore 169547, Singapore
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Carlson GC, Coulter DA. In vitro functional imaging in brain slices using fast voltage-sensitive dye imaging combined with whole-cell patch recording. Nat Protoc 2008; 3:249-55. [PMID: 18274527 DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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In many brain areas, circuit connectivity is segregated into specific lamina or glomerula. Functional imaging in these anatomically discrete areas is particularly useful in characterizing circuit properties. Voltage-sensitive dye (VSD) imaging directly assays the spatiotemporal dynamics of neuronal activity, including the functional connectivity of the neurons involved. In spatially segregated structures, VSD imaging can define how physiology and connectivity interact, and can identify functional abnormalities in models of neurological and psychiatric disorders. In the following protocol, we describe the in vitro slice preparation, epifluorescence setup and analyses necessary for fast charge-coupled device (CCD)-based VSD imaging combined with simultaneous whole-cell patch recording. The addition of single-cell recordings validates imaging results, and can reveal the relationship between single-cell activity and the VSD-imaged population response; in synchronously activated neurons, this change in whole-cell recorded V(m) can accurately represent population V(m) changes driving the VSD responses. Thus, the combined VSD imaging and whole-cell patch approach provides experimental resolution spanning single-cell electrophysiology to complex local circuit responses.
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- Greg C Carlson
- Translational Research Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Room 2226, 125 S 31st Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-3403, USA
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Foley J, Muschol M. Action spectra of electrochromic voltage-sensitive dyes in an intact excitable tissue. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2008; 13:064015. [PMID: 19123661 DOI: 10.1117/1.3013326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Voltage-sensitive dyes (VSDs) provide a spatially resolved optical read-out of electrical signals in excitable tissues. Several common fluorescent VSDs display electrochromic shifts of their emission spectra, making them suitable candidates for ratiometric measurements of transmembrane voltages. These advantages of VSDs are tempered by tissue-specific shifts to their fluorescence emission. In addition, the optimal electrochromic dye response occurs in wavelength bands distinct from the dye's maximal resting emission. This "action spectrum" can undergo tissue-specific shifts as well. We have developed a technique for in situ measurements of the action spectra of VSDs in intact excitable tissues. Fluorescence emission spectra of VSDs during action-potential depolarization were obtained within a single sweep of a spectrophotometer equipped with a change-coupled device (CCD) array detector. To resolve the subtle electrochromic shifts in voltage-induced dye emission, fluorescence emission spectra measured right before and during field-induced action-potential depolarization were averaged over about 100 trials. Removing white-noise contributions from the spectrometer's CCD detector/amplifier via low-pass filtering in Fourier space, the action spectra of all dyes could be readily determined.
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- Joseph Foley
- University of South Florida, Department of Physics, Tampa, Florida 33620-5700, USA
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Yan P, Xie A, Wei M, Loew LM. Amino(oligo)thiophene-based environmentally sensitive biomembrane chromophores. J Org Chem 2008; 73:6587-94. [PMID: 18665648 DOI: 10.1021/jo800852h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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There is a growing need for cellular imaging with fluorescent probes that emit at longer wavelengths to minimize the effects of absorption, autofluorescence, and scattering from biological tissue. In this paper a series of new environmentally sensitive hemicyanine dyes featuring amino(oligo)thiophene donors have been synthesized via aldol condensation between a 4-methylpyridinium salt and various amino(oligo)thiophene carboxaldehydes, which were, in turn, obtained from amination of bromo(oligo)thiophene carboxaldehyde. Side chains on these fluorophores impart a strong affinity for biological membranes. Compared with benzene analogues, these thiophene fluorophores show significant red shift in the absorption and emission spectra, offering compact red and near-infrared emitting fluorophores. More importantly, both the fluorescence quantum yields and the emission peaks are very sensitive to various environmental factors such as solvent polarity or viscosity, membrane potential, and membrane composition. These chromophores also exhibit strong nonlinear optical properties, including two-photon fluorescence and second harmonic generation, which are themselves environmentally sensitive. The combination of long wavelength fluorescence and nonlinear optical properties make these chromophores very suitable for applications that require sensing or imaging deep inside tissues.
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- Ping Yan
- Richard D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut 06030, USA
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O'Donovan MJ, Bonnot A, Mentis GZ, Arai Y, Chub N, Shneider NA, Wenner P. Imaging the spatiotemporal organization of neural activity in the developing spinal cord. Dev Neurobiol 2008; 68:788-803. [PMID: 18383543 DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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In this review, we discuss the use of imaging to visualize the spatiotemporal organization of network activity in the developing spinal cord of the chick embryo and the neonatal mouse. We describe several different methods for loading ion- and voltage-sensitive dyes into spinal neurons and consider the advantages and limitations of each one. We review work in the chick embryo, suggesting that motoneurons play a critical role in the initiation of each cycle of spontaneous network activity and describe how imaging has been used to identify a class of spinal interneuron that appears to be the avian homolog of mammalian Renshaw cells or 1a-inhibitory interneurons. Imaging of locomotor-like activity in the neonatal mouse revealed a wave-like activation of motoneurons during each cycle of discharge. We discuss the significance of this finding and its implications for understanding how locomotor-like activity is coordinated across different segments of the cord. In the last part of the review, we discuss some of the exciting new prospects for the future.
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- Michael J O'Donovan
- National Institute of Neurological Disorder and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
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Glover JC, Sato K, Sato YM. Using voltage-sensitive dye recording to image the functional development of neuronal circuits in vertebrate embryos. Dev Neurobiol 2008; 68:804-16. [DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Patrick MJ, Ernst LA, Waggoner AS, Thai D, Tai D, Salama G. Enhanced aqueous solubility of long wavelength voltage-sensitive dyes by covalent attachment of polyethylene glycol. Org Biomol Chem 2007; 5:3347-53. [PMID: 17912389 PMCID: PMC3021457 DOI: 10.1039/b711438a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Long wavelength voltage-sensitive dyes (VSDs) called Pittsburgh (PGH) dyes were recently synthesized by coupling various heterocyclic groups to a styryl-thiophene intermediate forming extended, partially rigid chromophores. Unlike most styryl VSDs, dyes with a sulfonic acid anchor directly attached to the chromophore showed no solvatochromic absorption shifts. The limited water solubility of many long wavelength VSDs requires the use of surfactants to transport the dye through physiological saline solutions and effectively label biological membranes. Here, we tested the chemical substitution of the sulfonic acid moiety with polyethyleneglycol (PEG) chains, ranging from MW 750 to 5000, to overcome the poor solubility of VSDs while retaining their properties as VSDs. The chemical synthesis of PGH dyes and their PEG derivatives are described. The PEG derivatives were soluble in aqueous solutions (>1 mM) and still reported membrane potential changes. In frog and mouse hearts, the voltage sensitivity (DeltaF/F per action potential) and spectral properties of PEG dyes were the same as the sulfonated analogues. Thus, the solubility of VSDs can be considerably improved with small polyethyleneglycol chains and can provide an effective approach to improve staining of excitable tissues and optical recordings of membrane potential.
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- Michael J Patrick
- Molecular Biosensor & Imaging Center, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
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Matiukas A, Mitrea BG, Qin M, Pertsov AM, Shvedko AG, Warren MD, Zaitsev AV, Wuskell JP, Wei MD, Watras J, Loew LM. Near-infrared voltage-sensitive fluorescent dyes optimized for optical mapping in blood-perfused myocardium. Heart Rhythm 2007; 4:1441-51. [PMID: 17954405 DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2006] [Accepted: 07/06/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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BACKGROUND Styryl voltage-sensitive dyes (e.g., di-4-ANEPPS) have been used successfully for optical mapping in cardiac cells and tissues. However, their utility for probing electrical activity deep inside the myocardial wall and in blood-perfused myocardium has been limited because of light scattering and high absorption by endogenous chromophores and hemoglobin at blue-green excitation wavelengths. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to characterize two new styryl dyes--di-4-ANBDQPQ (JPW-6003) and di-4-ANBDQBS (JPW-6033)--optimized for blood-perfused tissue and intramural optical mapping. METHODS Voltage-dependent spectra were recorded in a model lipid bilayer. Optical mapping experiments were conducted in four species (mouse, rat, guinea pig, and pig). Hearts were Langendorff perfused using Tyrode's solution and blood (pig). Dyes were loaded via bolus injection into perfusate. Transillumination experiments were conducted in isolated coronary-perfused pig right ventricular wall preparations. RESULTS The optimal excitation wavelength in cardiac tissues (650 nm) was >70 nm beyond the absorption maximum of hemoglobin. Voltage sensitivity of both dyes was approximately 10% to 20%. Signal decay half-life due to dye internalization was 80 to 210 minutes, which is 5 to 7 times slower than for di-4-ANEPPS. In transillumination mode, DeltaF/F was as high as 20%. In blood-perfused tissues, DeltaF/F reached 5.5% (1.8 times higher than for di-4-ANEPPS). CONCLUSION We have synthesized and characterized two new near-infrared dyes with excitation/emission wavelengths shifted >100 nm to the red. They provide both high voltage sensitivity and 5 to 7 times slower internalization rate compared to conventional dyes. The dyes are optimized for deeper tissue probing and optical mapping of blood-perfused tissue, but they also can be used for conventional applications.
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- Arvydas Matiukas
- Department of Pharmacology, State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York 13210, USA
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Zhou WL, Ping Y, Wuskell JP, Loew LM, Antic SD. Intracellular long-wavelength voltage-sensitive dyes for studying the dynamics of action potentials in axons and thin dendrites. J Neurosci Methods 2007; 164:225-39. [PMID: 17560661 PMCID: PMC2001318 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2007.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2007] [Revised: 04/28/2007] [Accepted: 05/01/2007] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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In CNS neurons most of synaptic integration takes place in thin dendritic branches that are difficult to study with conventional physiological recording techniques (electrodes). When cellular compartments are too small, or too many, for electrode recordings, optical methods bring considerable advantages. Here we focused our experimental effort on the development and utilization of new kinds of voltage-sensitive dyes (VSD). The new VSDs have bluish appearance in organic solvents, and hence are dubbed "blue dyes". They have preferred excitation windows for voltage recording that are shifted to longer wavelengths (approximately 660nm). Excitation in deep red light and emission in the near-infrared render "blue VSDs" potentially useful in measurements from fluorescent structures below the tissue surface because light scattering is minimized at longer wavelengths. Seven new molecules were systematically tested using intracellular injection. In comparison to the previously used red dye (JPW-3028) the blue dyes have better sensitivity (DeltaF/F) by approximately 40%. Blue dyes take little time to fill the dendritic tree, and in this aspect they are comparable with the fastest red dye JPW-3028. Based on our results, blue VSDs are well suited for experimental exploration of thin neuronal processes in semi intact preparations (brain slice). In some cases only six sweeps of temporal averaging were needed to acquire excellent records of individual action potentials in basal and oblique dendritic branches, or in axons and axon collaterals up to 200microm away from the cell body. Signal-to-noise ratio of these recordings was approximately 10. The combination of blue dyes and laser illumination approach imposed little photodynamic damage and allowed the total number of recording sweeps per cell to exceed 100. Using these dyes and a spot laser illumination technique, we demonstrate the first recording of action potentials in the oblique dendrite and distal axonal segment of the same pyramidal cell.
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- Wen-Liang Zhou
- Department of Neuroscience, UConn Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030
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- Richard D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, UConn Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030
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- Richard D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, UConn Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030
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- Richard D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling, UConn Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030
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- Department of Neuroscience, UConn Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030
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