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Light-sheet fluorescence imaging to localize cardiac lineage and protein distribution

  • Yichen Ding
  • , Juhyun Lee
  • , Jianguo Ma
  • , Kevin Sung
  • , Tomohiro Yokota
  • , Neha Singh
  • , Mojdeh Dooraghi
  • , Parinaz Abiri
  • , Yibin Wang
  • , Rajan P. Kulkarni
  • , Atsushi Nakano
  • , Thao P. Nguyen
  • , Peng Fei
  • , Tzung K. Hsiai

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Abstract

Light-sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) serves to advance developmental research and regenerative medicine. Coupled with the paralleled advances in fluorescence-friendly tissue clearing technique, our cardiac LSFM enables dual-sided illumination to rapidly uncover the architecture of murine hearts over 10 by 10 by 10 mm 3 in volume; thereby allowing for localizing progenitor differentiation to the cardiomyocyte lineage and AAV9-mediated expression of exogenous transmembrane potassium channels with high contrast and resolution. Without the steps of stitching image columns, pivoting the light-sheet and sectioning the heart mechanically, we establish a holistic strategy for 3-dimentional reconstruction of the "digital murine heart" to assess aberrant cardiac structures as well as the spatial distribution of the cardiac lineages in neonates and ion-channels in adults.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number42209
JournalScientific Reports
Volume7
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 6 2017
Externally publishedYes

Funding

This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (5R01HL083015-10, 1R01HL118650, 1R01HL129727, 7R01HL111437, U54 EB022002, P41-EB02182)

FundersFunder number
Author National Institutes of Health National Institutes of Health National Institutes of Health National Institutes of Health The Bev Hartig Huntington's Disease Foundation National Institutes of Health5R01HL083015-10, U54 EB022002, P41-EB02182, 1R01HL118650, 7R01HL111437, 1R01HL129727
National Center for Advancing Translational SciencesKL2TR001882

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