Nanoscale imaging of synapses : new concepts and opportunities

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    • Nägerl, U. Valentin
    • Triller, Antoine

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Nanoscale imaging of synapses : new concepts and opportunities

edited by U. Valentin Nägerl, Antoine Triller

(Neuromethods, 84)(Springer protocols)

Humana Press, c2014

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Synapses underlie rapid and flexible neural communication in the brain and they hold the key to understanding higher brain functions in health and disease. Because they are very small and highly dynamic, it is very difficult to study them with traditional techniques. Fortunately, recent ground-breaking advances in optical microscopy (e.g. STED, PALM, STORM, SIM) have greatly improved our ability to image living synapses at the nanoscale, even down to the level of single molecules. The proposed volume brings together leading researchers to review these exciting new techniques and their application in neurobiological research. It will explain and discuss the basic principles behind the various superresolution modalities, how they are implemented, what their scope and limitations are etc. In addition, several key research discoveries on synapses enabled by these novel approaches will be highlighted.

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Preface 1. Nanoscale imaging of protein molecules at the postsynaptic density Xiaobing Chen, Christine Winters, Rita Azzam, Alioscka A. Sousa, Richard D. Leapman, and Thomas S. Reese 2. Electron tomography for the study of synaptic ultrastructure in fixed brain sections Alain C. Burette and Richard J. Weinberg 3. Time-resolved electron microscopy: coupling optogenetics with high-pressure freezing Shigeki Watanabe, M. Wayne Davis and Erik M. Jorgensen 4. Investigating AMPA receptors diffusion and nanoscale organization at synapses with high density single molecule tracking methods Audrey Constals, Eric Hosy and Daniel Choquet 5. Visualising the ultra-structures and dynamics of synapses by single molecule nanoscopy Christian G. Specht, Ignacio Izeddin, and Maxime Dahan 6. Live-cell PALM of intracellular proteins in neurons Nicholas A. Frost, Harold D. MacGillavry, Hsiangmin E. Lu and Thomas A. Blanpied 7. Monitoring nanoscale mobility of small molecules with time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy imaging Kaiyu Zheng, James A. Levitt, Klaus Suhling and Dmitri A. Rusakov 8. Imaging signalling transduction in single dendritic spines Nathan Hedrick and Ryohei Yasuda 9. Imaging-based measures of synaptic tenacity Noam E. Ziv 10. Zooming in on the (peri)synaptic extracellular matrix Svetlana Korotchenko, Francesca Cella Zanacchi, Alberto Diaspro and Alexander Dityatev 11. Two-photon STED microscopy for imaging synapses and glia in acute brain slices Philipp Bethge and U. Valentin Nagerl Index

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