Chapter title |
Synapse Development
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Chapter number | 14 |
Book title |
Synapse Development
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2017
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-6688-2_14 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-6686-8, 978-1-4939-6688-2
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Authors |
Bosch, Miquel, Castro, Jorge, Sur, Mriganka, Hayashi, Yasunori, Miquel Bosch, Jorge Castro, Mriganka Sur, Yasunori Hayashi |
Editors |
Alexandros Poulopoulos |
Abstract |
Synapses learn and remember by persistent modifications of their internal structures and composition but, due to their small size, it is difficult to observe these changes at the ultrastructural level in real time. Two-photon fluorescence microscopy (2PM) allows time-course live imaging of individual synapses but lacks ultrastructural resolution. Electron microscopy (EM) allows the ultrastructural imaging of subcellular components but cannot detect fluorescence and lacks temporal resolution. Here, we describe a combination of procedures designed to achieve the correlated imaging of the same individual synapse under both 2PM and EM. This technique permits the selective stimulation and live imaging of a single dendritic spine and the subsequent localization of the same spine in EM ultrathin serial sections. Landmarks created through a photomarking method based on the 2-photon-induced precipitation of an electrodense compound are used to unequivocally localize the stimulated synapse. This technique was developed to image, for the first time, the ultrastructure of the postsynaptic density in which long-term potentiation was selectively induced just seconds or minutes before, but it can be applied for the study of any biological process that requires the precise relocalization of micron-wide structures for their correlated imaging with 2PM and EM. |
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