Imaging Core

成像核心

• 批准号: 8110618
• 负责人: Joshua Trachtenberg
• 金额: $ 24.09万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-04-01 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8110618
• 关键词: Algorithms; Anatomy; Anterior; Cataloging; Catalogs; Computer software; Development; Genes; Image; Image Analysis; Interneurons; Kinetics; Label; Laboratories; Length; Life; Neurons; Operative Surgical Procedures; Preparation; Protocols documentation; Research Personnel; Resources; Role; Techniques; Testing; Time; Transgenic Mice; Vertebral column; Visual; Work; calcium indicator; cingulate cortex; cost; cost effective; density; hippocampal pyramidal neuron; in vivo; member; multidisciplinary; novel; relating to nervous system; sensor; tool; voltage

The function of the Imaging Core is to test novel imaging approaches and image analysis algorithms, streamline these techniques for in vivo imaging of cortical plasticity, and supply the optimized protocols and software to the investigators in the Center. The approaches optimized by the Imaging Core will be used in Projects 1, 2 and 3 of the Center for multidisciplinary, comprehensive studies of the role of specific genes in anatomical cortical plasticity. The Core is a cost effective and efficient way of providing imaging and analysis techniques to investigators in the Center. Specifically, the Core will: 1. Screen novel transgenic mice for markers for in vivo imaging that label specific aspects of neural anatomy, such as specific inhibitory interneurons and laminar-specific pyramidal neurons. 2. Catalog which labeled lines are bright enough for in vivo imaging and how this brightness changes with development. 3. Catalog which labeled lines express in visual, barrel, and anterior cingulate cortices 4. Screen newly-advanced genetically-encoded markers of neuronal function (e.g. calcium indicators and voltage sensors) to determine which are suitable for in vivo imaging. 5. Develop novel image analysis tools to automate the quantification of axonal and dendritic structural plasticity (e.g. changes in branching, branch length, spine volume, spine and bouton density, spine kinetics). 6. Continually fine-tune the surgical preparation for live imaging of cortical neurons. By assigning these tasks to one facility, the Center gains an economy of scale in which the time devoted to working through these important issues is absorbed once by the Core. Thus, each lab in the Center is not individually burdened with the costs in time, people, and resources necessary to work through and optimize the imaging approaches necessary to accomplish the projects proposed by the Center. Additionally, the Core will insure that the imaging approach used by each laboratory is uniformly agreed upon by each of the members of the Center and is of the highest possible quality.

成像核心的功能是测试新颖的成像方法和图像分析算法， 简化这些用于皮质可塑性体内成像的技术，并提供优化的方案和 软件提供给中心的调查人员。成像核心优化的方法将用于 特定基因在生物多样性中的作用的多学科综合研究中心的项目1、2和3 解剖皮质可塑性。 Core 是一种经济高效的方式，可为研究人员提供成像和分析技术。 中心。具体来说，核心将： 1. 筛选新型转基因小鼠体内成像标记物，标记神经的特定方面 解剖学，例如特异性抑制性中间神经元和层状特异性锥体神经元。 2. 目录哪些标记线对于体内成像来说足够亮，以及该亮度如何随 发展。 3. 视觉、桶状和前扣带皮层中表达的标记线目录 4. 筛选最新的神经元功能基因编码标志物（例如钙指标和 电压传感器）来确定哪些适合体内成像。 5. 开发新颖的图像分析工具来自动量化轴突和树突结构 可塑性（例如分支、分支长度、脊柱体积、脊柱和布顿密度、脊柱动力学的变化）。 6. 不断微调皮质神经元实时成像的手术准备。 通过将这些任务分配给一个设施，该中心获得了规模经济，其中投入的时间 解决这些重要问题的工作一旦被核心所吸收。因此，中心的每个实验室都不是 单独承担完成和优化所需的时间、人力和资源成本 完成中心提议的项目所需的成像方法。此外， 核心将确保每个实验室使用的成像方法得到每个实验室的统一同意 该中心的成员具有最高的质量。