Optical Clearing of the Mouse Central Nervous System Using Passive CLARITYDustin G. Roberts 1, Hadley B. Johnsonbaugh 1, Rory D. Spence 2, Allan MacKenzie-Graham 1
1Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, 2W.M. Keck Science Department, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer & Scripps Colleges
Optical clearing techniques are revolutionizing the way tissues are visualized. In this report we describe modifications of the original Clear Lipid-exchanged Acrylamide-hybridized Rigid Imaging-compatible Tissue-hYdrogel (CLARITY) protocol that yields more consistent and less expensive results.
