For the first time, researchers have imaged all neuronal activity in living organisms (Caenorhabditis elegans). This achievement, published in the May 18 issue of Nature-Methodology, shows how neural signals pass through organisms in real time.
As early as 1986, scientists have mapped the connection of all 302 nerve cells of the nematode – the first and so far no success in any other organism.
But this "road map" does not help scientists identify the neural cell pathway that leads to a particular behavior. Alipasha Vaziri, a neuroscientist at the University of Vienna in Austria, also pointed out that researchers could not use the connection map to predict what the nematode would do at any point in time. By providing a way to demonstrate signal activity between nerve cells in a three-dimensional and real-time manner, this new technology will enable scientists to achieve both of these goals.
Vaziri and colleagues genetically engineered Caenorhabditis elegans so that when a nerve cell is activated and calcium ions pass through its cell membrane, the entire nerve cell will be illuminated.
To capture these signals, the researchers used a technique called light field deconvolution microscopy to image the entire nematode. This technique integrates images from a set of microlenses and analyzes them using an algorithm to obtain a high-resolution 3D image. The researchers filmed up to 50 images of the entire nematode every second, allowing them to observe the neuronal activity of the C. elegans brain, central nervous system, and tail.
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Next, the researchers used this technique to analyze the transparent zebrafish (Danio rerio) larvae—the zebrafish responded to the smell of chemicals pumped into the water, and they imaged the entire brain of the small fish. . With the help of this technology, the researchers were able to capture the activity of about 5,000 nerve cells at the same time (the zebrafish has about 100,000 nerve cells).
Misha Ahrens, a neurobiologist at the Jolly Farm Research Park at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Osborne, Virginia, USA, said: "The circuit diagram and nerve cell activity are completely complementary. By observing one or the other nerve cell You won't understand the entire nervous system." Using circuit diagrams to map how neural signals move between nerve cells will allow researchers to pinpoint the role of each individual nerve cell. Ahrens said: "There are no hidden variables here."
In 2013, Ahrens's team used a microscope technique to image the activity of the entire zebrafish brain by passing a piece of light through the animal's tissues. However, the new technology is much faster – it can increase the number of images taken by researchers per second by a factor of 100.
The study's collaborator, Edward Boyden, a neurobiologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, said the researchers will use the technology to determine how nerve cells respond to a stimulus and build a model. He also hopes to improve the speed and resolution of the technology in order to image larger tissues, such as the mammalian brain.
Caenorhabditis elegans is a non-toxic and harmless nematode that can survive independently. The individual is small, the adult is only 1.5mm long, and is hermaphroditic. The male individual only accounts for 0.2% of the population, and can be self-fertilized or bisexual; the average life history is 3.5 days at 20 °C, and the average fecundity is 300-350; However, if mated with males, it can produce up to 1400 or more offspring. Since 1965, scientists have facilitated the use of nematodes as model organisms in the fields of molecular biology and developmental biology.
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