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ArticleeLife2022

Rapid reconstruction of neural circuits using tissue expansion and light sheet microscopy.

Joshua L Lillvis, Hideo Otsuna, Xiaoyu Ding, Igor Pisarev, Takashi Kawase, Jennifer Colonell, Konrad Rokicki, Cristian Goina, Ruixuan Gao, Amy Hu and 9 more

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Article in eLife, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Joshua L LillvisJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6235-8759
Hideo OtsunaJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2107-8881
Xiaoyu DingJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States.
Igor PisarevJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States.
Takashi KawaseJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States.
Jennifer ColonellJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States.
Konrad RokickiJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2799-9833
Cristian GoinaJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2835-7602
Ruixuan GaoJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States.
Amy HuJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States.
Kaiyu WangJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States.
John BogovicJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4829-9457
Daniel E MilkieJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States.
Linus MeienbergETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-6793-1422
Brett D MenshJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States.
Edward S BoydenMIT McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Cambridge, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0419-3351
Stephan SaalfeldJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4106-1761
Paul W TillbergJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2568-2365
Barry J DicksonJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, United States.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · USAllen Institute for Brain Science · US

Funding

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brain function is mediated by the physiological coordination of a vast, intricately connected network of molecular and cellular components. The physiological properties of neural network components can be quantified with high throughput. The ability to assess many animals per study has been critical in relating physiological properties to behavior. By contrast, the synaptic structure of neural circuits is presently quantifiable only with low throughput. This low throughput hampers efforts to understand how variations in network structure relate to variations in behavior. For neuroanatomical reconstruction, there is a methodological gulf between electron microscopic (EM) methods, which yield dense connectomes at considerable expense and low throughput, and light microscopic (LM) methods, which provide molecular and cell-type specificity at high throughput but without synaptic resolution. To bridge this gulf, we developed a high-throughput analysis pipeline and imaging protocol using tissue expansion and light sheet microscopy (ExLLSM) to rapidly reconstruct selected circuits across many animals with single-synapse resolution and molecular contrast. Using

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ConnectomeMicroscopyAnimalsDrosophilaSynapsesTissue ExpansionconnectomicsD. melanogasterimage analysislight sheet microscopyneuroscienceplasticitysynapsevariability

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PMID36286237
PMCPMC9651950
OpenAlexW4307291168

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