| RRC ID |
372
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| 著者 |
Higashijima S, Masino MA, Mandel G, Fetcho JR.
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| タイトル |
Imaging neuronal activity during zebrafish behavior with a genetically encoded calcium indicator.
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| ジャーナル |
J Neurophysiol
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| Abstract |
Genetically encoded calcium indicators, such as cameleon, have offered the promise of noninvasively monitoring activity of neurons, but no one has demonstrated whether these indicators can report calcium transients in neurons of behaving vertebrates. We show that cameleon can be expressed at high levels in sensory and spinal cord neurons in zebrafish by using neural-specific promoters in both transient expression experiments and in a stable transgenic line. Using standard confocal microscopy, calcium transients in identified motoneurons and spinal interneurons could be detected during escape behaviors produced by a touch on the head of the fish. Small movements of the restrained fish during the behavior did not represent a major problem for analyzing the calcium responses because of the ratiometric nature of cameleon. We conclude that cameleon can be used to noninvasively study the activity of neurons in an intact, behaving vertebrate. The ability to introduce an indicator genetically allows for studies of the functional roles of local interneurons that cannot easily be monitored with other approaches. Transgenic lines such as the one we generated can also be crossed into mutant lines of fish to study both structural and functional consequences of the mutations.
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| 巻・号 |
90(6)
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| ページ |
3986-97
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| 公開日 |
2003-12-1
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| DOI |
10.1152/jn.00576.2003
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| PII |
00576.2003
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| PMID |
12930818
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| MeSH |
Animals
Animals, Genetically Modified
Behavior, Animal / physiology*
Calcium Signaling / physiology*
Calcium-Binding Proteins* / biosynthesis
DNA, Complementary / biosynthesis
DNA, Complementary / genetics
Drosophila Proteins* / biosynthesis
Electric Stimulation
Electrophysiology
Embryo, Nonmammalian
Escape Reaction / physiology
Interneurons / physiology
Microscopy, Confocal
Motor Neurons / physiology
Neurons / physiology*
Patch-Clamp Techniques
Plasmids / genetics
Zebrafish / physiology*
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| IF |
2.234
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| 引用数 |
183
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WOS 分野
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PHYSIOLOGY
NEUROSCIENCES
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| リソース情報 |
| ゼブラフィッシュ |
rw0
cf2? |
