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Meng-Tsen Ke, Satoshi Fujimoto, Takeshi Imai (2013) SeeDB: a simple and morphology-preserving optical clearing agent for neuronal circuit reconstruction., Nature neuroscience, Volume 16, Number 8, pp. 1154-61

Published in 2013 Aug (Electronic publication in June 23, 2013, midnight )

doi: 10.1038/nn.3447
pmid: 23792946

(Abstract) We report a water-based optical clearing agent, SeeDB, which clears fixed brain samples in a few days without quenching many types of fluorescent dyes, including fluorescent proteins and lipophilic neuronal tracers. Our method maintained a constant sample volume during the clearing procedure, an important factor for keeping cellular morphology intact, and facilitated the quantitative reconstruction of neuronal circuits. Combined with two-photon microscopy and an optimized objective lens, we were able to image the mouse brain from the dorsal to the ventral side. We used SeeDB to describe the near-complete wiring diagram of sister mitral cells associated with a common glomerulus in the mouse olfactory bulb. We found the diversity of dendrite wiring patterns among sister mitral cells, and our results provide an anatomical basis for non-redundant odor coding by these neurons. Our simple and efficient method is useful for imaging intact morphological architecture at large scales in both the adult and developing brains.

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