Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE
Behavior
A Task for Assessing the Impact of a Partner on the Speed and Accuracy of Motor Performance in Rats
Yayoi Sekiguchi 1,2, Toshimichi Hata 3
1Graduate School of Psychology, Doshisha University, 2Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 3Faculty of Psychology, Doshisha University
A procedure to measure the speed and accuracy of rats’ motor performance in a social condition is described. The protocol enables us to investigate the effect of the mere presence of others on speed and accuracy of motor performance in one experiment.
Neuroscience
A Tissue Clearing Method for Neuronal Imaging from Mesoscopic to Microscopic Scales
Kenta Yamauchi 1,2, Shinichiro Okamoto 1,2,3, Megumu Takahashi 1,2,4,5, Masato Koike 2,3, Takahiro Furuta 6, Hiroyuki Hioki 1,2,7
1Department of Neuroanatomy, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, 2Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, 3Advanced Research Institute for Health Sciences, Juntendo University, 4Department of Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 5Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 6Department of Oral Anatomy and Neurobiology, Graduate School of Dentistry, Osaka University, 7Department of Multi-Scale Brain Structure Imaging, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine
The protocol provides a detailed method of neuronal imaging in brain slice using a tissue clearing method, ScaleSF. The protocol includes brain tissue preparation, tissue clarification, handling of cleared slices and confocal laser scanning microscopy imaging of neuronal structures from mesoscopic to microscopic levels.
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