A new means to measure neurotransmission optically using fluorescent dopamine analogs.
Ref: Dopamine Release at Individual Presynaptic Terminals Visualized with FFNs
Hui Zhang1, 2, Niko G. Gubernator3, 4, Minerva Yue1, Roland G. W. Staal1, Eugene V. Mosharov1, Daniela Pereira1, Vojtech Balsanek3, Paul A. Vadola3, Bipasha Mukherjee5, Robert H. Edwards5, David Sulzer1, 2, 6, Dalibor Sames3 1Departments of Neurology, Columbia University, 2Departments of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Columbia University, 3Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, 4eMolecules, Inc., 5Departments of Neurology and Physiology, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, 6Division of Molecular Therapeutics, New York Psychiatric Institute
C. elegans embryo expressing B-tubulin GFP
Image courtesy of Koen Verbrugghe and Chris Malone, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Time-lapse recordings of tubulin GFP C. elegans embryos during mitosis.
One image was acquired every second with a 100x Super Fluor lens using the SFC.
Image courtesy of Kevin Eliceiri and Koen Verbrugghe, LOCI, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.