Wide-field and two-photon imaging of brain activity with voltage- and calcium-sensitive dyes.: Imaging brain activity

Ryota Homma 1 Bradley Baker 1 Lei Jin 1 Olga Garaschuk 2 Arthur Konnerth 2 Lawrence Cohen 1, 3 Chun Bleau 1, 3 Marco Canepari 1, * Maja Djurisic 1 Dejan Zecevic 1
* Auteur correspondant
1 Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
2 Institute of Neuroscience
3 RedShirtImaging, LLC
Abstract : This chapter presents three examples of imaging brain activity with voltage- or calcium-sensitive dyes. Because experimental measurements are limited by low sensitivity, the chapter then discusses the methodological aspects that are critical for optimal signal-to-noise ratio. Two of the examples use wide-field (1-photon) imaging and the third uses two-photon scanning microscopy. These methods have relatively high temporal resolution ranging from 10 to 10,000 Hz. The three examples are the following: (1) Internally injected voltage-sensitive dye can be used to monitor membrane potential in the dendrites of invertebrate and vertebrate neurons in in vitro preparations. These experiments are directed at understanding how individual neurons convert the complex input synaptic activity into the output spike train. (2) Recently developed methods for staining many individual cells in the mammalian brain with calcium-sensitive dyes together with two-photon microscopy made it possible to follow the spike activity of many neurons simultaneously while in vivo preparations are responding to stimulation. (3) Calcium-sensitive dyes that are internalized into olfactory receptor neurons in the nose will, after several days, be transported to the nerve terminals of these cells in the olfactory bulb glomeruli. There, the population signals can be used as a measure of the input from the nose to the bulb. Three kinds of noise in measuring light intensity are discussed: (1) Shot noise from the random emission of photons from the preparation. (2) Extraneous (technical) noise from external sources. (3) Noise that occurs in the absence of light, the dark noise. In addition, we briefly discuss the light sources, the optics, and the detectors and cameras. The commonly used organic voltage and ion sensitive dyes stain all of the cell types in the preparation indiscriminately. A major effort is underway to find methods for staining individual cell types in the brain selectively. Most of these efforts center around fluorescent protein activity sensors because transgenic methods can be used to express them in individual cell types.
Keywords : Animals Brain/*physiology Calcium/*chemistry Coloring Agents/*administration & dosage Evoked Potentials Humans *Photons
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Fahmeed Hyder. Dynamic Brain Imaging: Multi-Modal Methods and In Vivo Applications, 489, Humana Press Springer, pp.43-79, 2009, Methods in Molecular Biology, 〈10.1007/978-1-59745-543-5_3〉
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Ryota Homma, Bradley Baker, Lei Jin, Olga Garaschuk, Arthur Konnerth, et al.. Wide-field and two-photon imaging of brain activity with voltage- and calcium-sensitive dyes.: Imaging brain activity. Fahmeed Hyder. Dynamic Brain Imaging: Multi-Modal Methods and In Vivo Applications, 489, Humana Press Springer, pp.43-79, 2009, Methods in Molecular Biology, 〈10.1007/978-1-59745-543-5_3〉. 〈inserm-00515416〉

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