Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience

4 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Neuroscience

Sangcheon Choi^1,2, Kengo Takahashi^1,2, Yuanyuan Jiang^1,3, Sascha Köhler⁴, Hang Zeng^1,2, Qi Wang^1,2, Yan Ma^1,2, Xin Yu^1,3

¹Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, ²Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience, ³MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, ⁴Bruker BioSpin

Animal brain functional mapping can benefit from the real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experimental set-up. Using the latest software implemented in the animal MRI system, we established a real-time monitoring platform for small animal fMRI.

Cancer Research

Characterization and Functional Prediction of Bacteria in Ovarian Tissues

Lanbo Zhao^*1, Weichu Zhao^*2, Qi Wang^*1, Dongxin Liang¹, Yu Liu³, Guoxing Fu⁴, Lu Han¹, Yiran Wang¹, Chao Sun¹, Qing Wang¹, Qing Song¹, Qiling Li¹, Qinrui Lu¹

¹Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, ²School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, ³Department of Pathology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, ⁴Omega Bioservices Inc

Immunohistochemistry staining and 16S ribosomal RNA gene (16S rRNA gene) sequencing were performed in order to discover and distinguish bacteria in cancerous and noncancerous ovarian tissues in situ. The compositional and functional differences of the bacteria were predicted by using BugBase and Phylogenetic Investigation of Communities by Reconstruction of Unobserved States (PICRUSt).

Medicine

Augmented Reality Navigation-Guided Core Decompression for Osteonecrosis of Femoral Head

Qi Wang^*1,3, Qiuyuan Wang^*2,3, Ran Ding³, Youjie Yao⁴, Junjun Pan⁵, Weiguo Wang³

¹China-Japan Friendship School of Clinical Medicine, Peking University, ²Graduate School of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, ³Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Beijing Key Lab of Immunes-Mediated Inflammatory Disease, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, ⁴Beijing Normal University, ⁵State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, Beihang University

Augmented reality technology was applied to core decompression for osteonecrosis of the femoral head to realize real-time visualization of this surgical procedure. This method can effectively improve the safety and precision of core decompression.

Cancer Research

Surgical Technique for Superior Cervical Ganglionectomy in a Murine Model

Qi Wang¹, Chun-Hao Chen¹, Hongbo Xu², Sylvie Deborde^1,3, Richard J. Wong^1,3

¹Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, ²Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, ³David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

The present protocol describes a mouse model of the ablation of adrenergic innervation by identifying and resecting the superior cervical ganglion.