2022
En bloc preparation of Drosophila brains enables high-throughput FIB-SEM connectomics
Lu Z, Xu C, Hayworth K, Pang S, Shinomiya K, Plaza S, Scheffer L, Rubin G, Hess H, Rivlin P, Meinertzhagen I. En bloc preparation of Drosophila brains enables high-throughput FIB-SEM connectomics. Frontiers In Neural Circuits 2022, 16: 917251. PMID: 36589862, PMCID: PMC9801301, DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2022.917251.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2019
Neuron-Astrocyte Metabolic Coupling Protects against Activity-Induced Fatty Acid Toxicity
Ioannou MS, Jackson J, Sheu SH, Chang CL, Weigel AV, Liu H, Pasolli HA, Xu CS, Pang S, Matthies D, Hess HF, Lippincott-Schwartz J, Liu Z. Neuron-Astrocyte Metabolic Coupling Protects against Activity-Induced Fatty Acid Toxicity. Cell 2019, 177: 1522-1535.e14. PMID: 31130380, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.04.001.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGene expression programsLipid dropletsFatty acidsToxic fatty acidsMitochondrial β-oxidationNeuron-astrocyte couplingExpression programsMetabolic coordinationFatty acid toxicityFA toxicityCoordinated mechanismFA metabolismΒ-oxidationLipid metabolismHyperactive neuronsAcid toxicityNeuronal activityDisease statesNeuronsMetabolismNeural activityLipid particlesAstrocytesBrainHomeostasisCortical column and whole-brain imaging with molecular contrast and nanoscale resolution
Gao R, Asano SM, Upadhyayula S, Pisarev I, Milkie DE, Liu TL, Singh V, Graves A, Huynh GH, Zhao Y, Bogovic J, Colonell J, Ott CM, Zugates C, Tappan S, Rodriguez A, Mosaliganti KR, Sheu SH, Pasolli HA, Pang S, Xu CS, Megason SG, Hess H, Lippincott-Schwartz J, Hantman A, Rubin GM, Kirchhausen T, Saalfeld S, Aso Y, Boyden ES, Betzig E. Cortical column and whole-brain imaging with molecular contrast and nanoscale resolution. Science 2019, 363 PMID: 30655415, PMCID: PMC6481610, DOI: 10.1126/science.aau8302.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDopaminergic neuronsDendritic spinesMouse cortexPresynaptic densitySynaptic proteinsBrain regionsLarge-scale studiesCortical columnsLattice light-sheet microscopyNeural activityNeural developmentSpecific molecular constituentsBrainLight-sheet microscopyDegree of stereotypyNanoscale spatial relationshipExpansion microscopy