Structural and molecular interrogation of intact biological systems
Kwanghun Chung,Jenelle Wallace,Sung-Yon Kim,Sandhiya Kalyanasundaram,Aaron S. Andalman,Thomas J. Davidson,Julie J. Mirzabekov,Kelly A. Zalocusky,Joanna Mattis,Aleksandra K. Denisin,Sally Pak,Hannah L. Bernstein,Charu Ramakrishnan,Logan Grosenick,Viviana Gradinaru,Karl Deisseroth +15 more
TLDR
It is shown that CLARITY enables fine structural analysis of clinical samples, including non-sectioned human tissue from a neuropsychiatric-disease setting, establishing a path for the transmutation of human tissue into a stable, intact and accessible form suitable for probing structural and molecular underpinnings of physiological function and disease.Abstract:
Obtaining high-resolution information from a complex system, while maintaining the global perspective needed to understand system function, represents a key challenge in biology. Here we address this challenge with a method (termed CLARITY) for the transformation of intact tissue into a nanoporous hydrogel-hybridized form (crosslinked to a three-dimensional network of hydrophilic polymers) that is fully assembled but optically transparent and macromolecule-permeable. Using mouse brains, we show intact-tissue imaging of long-range projections, local circuit wiring, cellular relationships, subcellular structures, protein complexes, nucleic acids and neurotransmitters. CLARITY also enables intact-tissue in situ hybridization, immunohistochemistry with multiple rounds of staining and de-staining in non-sectioned tissue, and antibody labelling throughout the intact adult mouse brain. Finally, we show that CLARITY enables fine structural analysis of clinical samples, including non-sectioned human tissue from a neuropsychiatric-disease setting, establishing a path for the transmutation of human tissue into a stable, intact and accessible form suitable for probing structural and molecular underpinnings of physiological function and disease.read more
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