Toronto Western Hospital

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Medicine

A Novel High-resolution In vivo Imaging Technique to Study the Dynamic Response of Intracranial Structures to Tumor Growth and Therapeutics

Kelly Burrell¹, Sameer Agnihotri¹, Michael Leung², Ralph DaCosta², Richard Hill², Gelareh Zadeh³

¹Brain Tumor Research Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto Medical Discovery Tower, ²Ontario Cancer Institute, Princess Margaret Hospital, ³Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital

We describe a novel in vivo imaging technique that couples fluorescent chimeric mice with intracranial windows and high-resolution 2-photon microscopy. This imaging platform aids studies of dynamic changes in brain tissue and microvasculature, at a single-cell level, following pathological insults and is adaptable to assess intracranial drug delivery and distribution.

JoVE Journal

Targeted Next-generation Sequencing and Bioinformatics Pipeline to Evaluate Genetic Determinants of Constitutional Disease

Allison A. Dilliott^1,2, Sali M.K. Farhan³, Mahdi Ghani⁴, Christine Sato⁴, Eric Liang⁵, Ming Zhang⁴, Adam D. McIntyre¹, Henian Cao¹, Lemuel Racacho^6,7, John F. Robinson¹, Michael J. Strong^1,8, Mario Masellis^9,10, Dennis E. Bulman^6,7, Ekaterina Rogaeva⁴, Anthony Lang^10,11, Carmela Tartaglia^4,10, Elizabeth Finger^12,13, Lorne Zinman⁹, John Turnbull¹⁴, Morris Freedman^10,15, Rick Swartz⁹, Sandra E. Black^9,16, Robert A. Hegele^1,2

¹Robarts Research Institute, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, ²Department of Biochemistry, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, ³Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Stanley Centre for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, ⁴Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, ⁵School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University, ⁶Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, ⁷CHEO Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, ⁸Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Western University, ⁹Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, ¹⁰Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, ¹¹Morton and Gloria Shulman Movement Disorders Centre, Toronto Western Hospital, ¹²Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, ¹³Parkwood Institute, St. Joseph's Health Care, ¹⁴Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, McMaster University, ¹⁵Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Baycrest Health Sciences, ¹⁶Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery Sunnybrook Site, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, University of Toronto

Targeted next-generation sequencing is a time- and cost-efficient approach that is becoming increasingly popular in both disease research and clinical diagnostics. The protocol described here presents the complex workflow required for sequencing and the bioinformatics process used to identify genetic variants that contribute to disease.