Name: automated quantification of synaptic fluorescence in c. elegans
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Авторы хотели бы поблагодарить А. Benham за помощь в разработке протокола. Эта работа финансировалась NIH грант NS06747 к BAB

1. Подготовка червей для работы с изображениями Этот сегмент протокол основан на опубликованных C. Элеганс культуры методами 1,2 и изложена на рисунке 1. <ol><li> Рост червей на высоком пептон NGM агаром (10 см) с семенами Na22 E. бактерии кишечной палочки<...

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Метод, представленная здесь, предназначен для извлечения количественных многопараметрических данных для больших групп населения синапсов в C. Элеганс, при максимальном последовательности в группах. Три особенности способствуют достижению этих целей. Во-первых, окрашивания осущ?...

<table border="1"><tbody><tr><td> Название программы </td><td> Компания </td><td></td><td> Комментарии (опционально) </td></tr><tr><td> Volocity v4.0 или выше </td><td> PerkinElmer / Improvision </td><td></td><td> Проверьте свои местные средства основного изображения для доступа к этим программным обеспечением. Демо-программа доступна на сайте PerkinElmer. Этот метод требует только количественное модуль Volocity. </td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td> Таблица 2. Специальные реагенты и оборудование. </td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td><table border="1"><tbody><tr><td> Яйцо буфер </td><td> NaCl KCl CaCl 2 MgCl 2 HEPES (Регулировка рН до 7,3) </td> &lt;TD&gt; 118 мм 48 мм 2 мМ 2 мМ 24 мм </td></tr><tr><td> Щелочная гипохлорита (5 мл) </td><td> Свежий бытового отбеливателя (отказаться от бутылки через 30 дней после открытия) 10 N NaOH DDH 2 O </td><td> 1,0 мл 0,25 мл 3,75 мл </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td> Таблица 1. Решения. </td></tr></tbody></table>

automated quantification of synaptic fluorescence in c. elegans

Synapse strength refers to the amplitude of postsynaptic responses to presynaptic neurotransmitter release events, and has a major impact on overall neural circuit function. Synapse strength critically depends on the abundance of neurotransmitter receptors clustered at synaptic sites on the postsynaptic membrane. Receptor levels are established developmentally, and can be altered by receptor trafficking between surface-localized, subsynaptic, and intracellular pools, representing important mechanisms of synaptic plasticity and neuromodulation. Rigorous methods to quantify synaptically-localized neurotransmitter receptor abundance are essential to study synaptic development and plasticity. Fluorescence microscopy is an optimal approach because it preserves spatial information, distinguishing synaptic from non-synaptic pools, and discriminating among receptor populations localized to different types of synapses. The genetic model organism Caenorhabditis elegans is particularly well suited for these studies due to the small size and relative simplicity of its nervous system, its transparency, and the availability of powerful genetic techniques, allowing examination of native synapses in intact animals.
Here we present a method for quantifying fluorescently-labeled synaptic neurotransmitter receptors in C. elegans. Its key feature is the automated identification and analysis of individual synapses in three dimensions in multi-plane confocal microscope output files, tabulating position, volume, fluorescence intensity, and total fluorescence for each synapse. This approach has two principal advantages over manual analysis of z-plane projections of confocal data. First, because every plane of the confocal data set is included, no data are lost through z-plane projection, typically based on pixel intensity averages or maxima. Second, identification of synapses is automated, but can be inspected by the experimenter as the data analysis proceeds, allowing fast and accurate extraction of data from large numbers of synapses. Hundreds to thousands of synapses per sample can easily be obtained, producing large data sets to maximize statistical power. Considerations for preparing C. elegans for analysis, and performing confocal imaging to minimize variability between animals within treatment groups are also discussed. Although developed to analyze C. elegans postsynaptic receptors, this method is generally useful for any type of synaptically-localized protein, or indeed, any fluorescence signal that is localized to discrete clusters, puncta, or organelles.
The procedure is performed in three steps: 1) preparation of samples, 2) confocal imaging, and 3) image analysis. Steps 1 and 2 are specific to C. elegans, while step 3 is generally applicable to any punctate fluorescence signal in confocal micrographs.

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Automated Quantification of Synaptic Fluorescence in C. elegans

Обилие рецепторов нейромедиатора группируются в синапсах сильно влияет синаптической силы. Этот метод количественной флуоресцентно-меченных рецепторов нейромедиатора в трех измерениях с одного синапса резолюцию<em&gt; С. Элеганс</em&gt;, Что позволило в сотни синапсов, быстро характеризуется в пределах одного образца без искажения, вносимые г-плоскости проекции.

Автоматизированная количественная оценка Synaptic флуоресценции в<em&gt; С. Элеганс</em

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