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Abnormal photoreceptor outer segment development and early retinal degeneration in kif3a mutant zebrafish [PDF]

, 2016
Photoreceptors are highly specialized sensory neurons that possess a modified primary cilium called the outer segment. Photoreceptor outer segment formation and maintenance require highly active protein transport via a process known as intraflagellar ...
Akhtar, Alfinito, Avasthi, Bachmann-Gagescu, Baker, Beech, Brockerhoff, Cao, Deacon, Eblimit, Goetz, Huang, Insinna, Insinna, Insinna, Jiang, Jimeno, Jimeno, Kodani, Krock, Lopes, Louie, Makhankov, Marszalek, Marszalek, Muresan, Muresan, Nascimento, Nonaka, Pazour, Ryan, Scholey, Shu, Stearns, Sukumaran, Traverso, Trivedi, Tsujikawa, Tuma, Westerfield, Whitehead, Wolfrum, Yamazaki, Yang, Zhao   +44 more
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Engineered Living Systems With Self‐Organizing Neural Networks: From Anatomy to Behavior and Gene Expression

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Ectodermal tissue excised from Xenopus embryos self‐organizes into a three‐dimensional mucociliary organoid. Here, we generate a neural variant, termed neurobot, by implanting neural precursor cells. Neurobots develop mature neurons, adopt distinct morphologies, exhibit more complex motility, and respond differentially to neuroactive compounds. Imaging
Haleh Fotowat, Laurie O'Neill, Léo Pio‐Lopez, Megan M. Sperry, Patrick Erickson, Tiffany Lin, Michael Levin   +6 more
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Seeing the Light: The Use of Zebrafish for Optogenetic Studies of the Heart

Frontiers in Physiology, 2021
Optogenetics, involving the optical measurement and manipulation of cellular activity with genetically encoded light-sensitive proteins (“reporters” and “actuators”), is a powerful experimental technique for probing (patho-)physiological function ...
Jonathan S. Baillie, Matthew R. Stoyek, T. Alexander Quinn, T. Alexander Quinn   +3 more
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Three-dimensional scanless holographic optogenetics with temporal focusing (3D-SHOT). [PDF]

, 2017
Optical methods capable of manipulating neural activity with cellular resolution and millisecond precision in three dimensions will accelerate the pace of neuroscience research. Existing approaches for targeting individual neurons, however, fall short of
Adesnik, Hillel, Mardinly, Alan, Oldenburg, Ian, Pégard, Nicolas, Sridharan, Savitha, Waller, Laura   +5 more
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Multimodal Optical Imaging and Modulation with Simultaneous Electrophysiology Through Smart Dura in Non‐Human Primates

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study demonstrates multimodal integration in non‐human primates, combining large‐scale, high‐density electrophysiology using Smart Dura with optical techniques such as multiphoton imaging (MPI), photothrombotic lesioning, optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA), wide‐field intrinsic signal optical imaging (ISOI), and optogenetics.
Nari Hong, Sergio Montalvo Vargo, Gaku Hatanaka, Zhaoyu Gong, Noah Stanis, Jasmine Zhou, Tiphaine Belloir, Ruikang K. Wang, Wyeth Bair, Maysamreza Chamanzar, Azadeh Yazdan‐Shahmorad   +10 more
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An Open‐Source Pipeline for Calcium Imaging and All‐Optical Physiology in Human Stem Cell‐Derived Neurons

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This work introduces an open‐source all‐optical platform for functional phenotyping of human stem cell‐derived neurons. The system integrates optogenetics, calcium imaging, automated acquisition, and analysis to resolve single‐cell and network activity, enabling longitudinal measurements, disease modeling, and pharmacological screening in preclinical ...
Wardiya Afshar‐Saber, Federico M. Gasparoli, Ziqin Yang, Nicole A. Teaney, Rachel Hobson, Lahin Lalani, Gayathri Srinivasan, Dosh Whye, Ranit Karmakar, Elizabeth D. Buttermore, Kellen D. Winden, Cidi Chen, Mustafa Sahin   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

The visual pigment xenopsin is widespread in protostome eyes and impacts the view on eye evolution

eLife, 2020
Photoreceptor cells in the eyes of Bilateria are often classified into microvillar cells with rhabdomeric opsin and ciliary cells with ciliary opsin, each type having specialized molecular components and physiology.
Clemens Christoph Döring, Suman Kumar, Sharat Chandra Tumu, Ioannis Kourtesis, Harald Hausen   +4 more
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Blue light regenerates functional visual pigments in mammals through a retinyl-phospholipid intermediate. [PDF]

, 2017
The light absorbing chromophore in opsin visual pigments is the protonated Schiff base of 11-cis-retinaldehyde (11cRAL). Absorption of a photon isomerizes 11cRAL to all-trans-retinaldehyde (atRAL), briefly activating the pigment before it dissociates ...
Fain, Gordon L, Hakobyan, Hayk, Ingram, Norianne T, Kaylor, Joanna J, Travis, Gabriel H, Tsan, Avian, Xu, Tongzhou   +6 more
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Exploring adult hippocampal neurogenesis using optogenetics [PDF]

, 2018
In the 1980s, it was widely accepted that new neurons are continuously generated in the dentate gyrus of the mammalian hippocampus. Since its acceptance, researchers have employed various techniques and behavioral paradigms to study the proliferation ...
Pinardo, Heinrich
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Optogenetics: Background, Methodological Advances and Potential Applications for Cardiovascular Research and Medicine [PDF]

, 2020
Optogenetics is an elegant approach of precisely controlling and monitoring the biological functions of a cell, group of cells, tissues, or organs with high temporal and spatial resolution by using optical system and genetic engineering technologies. The
Joshi, Jyotsna, Rubart, Michael, Zhu, Wuqiang   +2 more
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