Fluorescent transgenic mouse models for whole-brain imaging in health and disease
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- dc.contributor.author Arias, Adrian
- dc.contributor.author Manubens-Gil, Linus, 1989-
- dc.contributor.author Dierssen, Mara
- dc.date.accessioned 2023-01-18T07:35:03Z
- dc.date.available 2023-01-18T07:35:03Z
- dc.date.issued 2022
- dc.description.abstract A paradigm shift is occurring in neuroscience and in general in life sciences converting biomedical research from a descriptive discipline into a quantitative, predictive, actionable science. Living systems are becoming amenable to quantitative description, with profound consequences for our ability to predict biological phenomena. New experimental tools such as tissue clearing, whole-brain imaging, and genetic engineering technologies have opened the opportunity to embrace this new paradigm, allowing to extract anatomical features such as cell number, their full morphology, and even their structural connectivity. These tools will also allow the exploration of new features such as their geometrical arrangement, within and across brain regions. This would be especially important to better characterize brain function and pathological alterations in neurological, neurodevelopmental, and neurodegenerative disorders. New animal models for mapping fluorescent protein-expressing neurons and axon pathways in adult mice are key to this aim. As a result of both developments, relevant cell populations with endogenous fluorescence signals can be comprehensively and quantitatively mapped to whole-brain images acquired at submicron resolution. However, they present intrinsic limitations: weak fluorescent signals, unequal signal strength across the same cell type, lack of specificity of fluorescent labels, overlapping signals in cell types with dense labeling, or undetectable signal at distal parts of the neurons, among others. In this review, we discuss the recent advances in the development of fluorescent transgenic mouse models that overcome to some extent the technical and conceptual limitations and tradeoffs between different strategies. We also discuss the potential use of these strains for understanding disease.
- dc.description.sponsorship The lab of MD was supported by the Departament d’Universitats, Recerca i Societat de la Informació de la Generalitat de Catalunya (Grups consolidats 2017 SGR 926, 2017 SGR 138). This research was funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (PID2019-110755RB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033), the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under grant agreement No. 848077. This reflects only the author’s view, and the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains. Jerôme Lejeune Foundation (Grant Number 2002), NIH (Grant Number: 1R01EB 028159-01), Marató TV3 (#2016/20-30), and JPND (Heroes AC170006). The CRG acknowledges the support of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation to the EMBL partnership, the Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa, and the CERCA Program/Generalitat de Catalunya. The CIBER of Rare Diseases (CIBERER) is an initiative of the ISCIII.
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- dc.identifier.citation Arias A, Manubens-Gil L, Dierssen M. Fluorescent transgenic mouse models for whole-brain imaging in health and disease. Front Mol Neurosci. 2022 Sep 23;15:958222. DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2022.958222
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2022.958222
- dc.identifier.issn 1662-5099
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/55324
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Frontiers
- dc.relation.ispartof Front Mol Neurosci. 2022 Sep 23;15:958222
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- dc.subject.keyword Cell detection and counting
- dc.subject.keyword Computational neuroscience
- dc.subject.keyword Fluorescent transgenic models
- dc.subject.keyword Morphological reconstruction
- dc.subject.keyword Whole-brain imaging
- dc.title Fluorescent transgenic mouse models for whole-brain imaging in health and disease
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