Teranikar Tanveer, Villarreal Cameron, Salehin Nabid, Ijaseun Toluwani, Lim Jessica, Dominguez Cynthia, Nguyen Vivian, Cao Hung, Chuong Cheng-Jen, Lee Juhyun
Joint Department of Bioengineering, UT Arlington/UT Southwestern, Arlington, TX, USA.
Martin High School/ UT Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA.
iScience. 2022 Aug 5;25(9):104876. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104876. eCollection 2022 Sep 16.
quantitative assessment of structural and functional biomarkers is essential for characterizing the pathophysiology of congenital disorders. In this regard, fixed tissue analysis has offered revolutionary insights into the underlying cellular architecture. However, histological analysis faces major drawbacks with respect to lack of spatiotemporal sampling and tissue artifacts during sample preparation. This study demonstrates the potential of light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) as a non-invasive, 4D (3days + time) optical sectioning tool for revealing cardiac mechano-transduction in zebrafish. Furthermore, we have described the utility of a scale and size-invariant feature detector, for analyzing individual morphology of fused cardiomyocyte nuclei and characterizing zebrafish ventricular contractility.
对结构和功能生物标志物进行定量评估对于表征先天性疾病的病理生理学至关重要。在这方面,固定组织分析为潜在的细胞结构提供了革命性的见解。然而,组织学分析在样本制备过程中面临着缺乏时空采样和组织伪影的主要缺点。本研究证明了光片荧光显微镜(LSFM)作为一种非侵入性的4D(3天+时间)光学切片工具在揭示斑马鱼心脏机械转导方面的潜力。此外,我们还描述了一种尺度和大小不变特征检测器的效用,用于分析融合心肌细胞核的个体形态并表征斑马鱼心室收缩性。