Petrovic Arsen, Do Thanh Thao, Fernández-Busnadiego Rubén
University Medical Center Göttingen, Institute for Neuropathology, Göttingen, 37077, Germany; Cluster of Excellence "Multiscale Bioimaging: from Molecular Machines to Networks of Excitable Cells" (MBExC), University of Göttingen, Göttingen, 37077, Germany.
University Medical Center Göttingen, Institute for Neuropathology, Göttingen, 37077, Germany.
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2025 Feb;90:102939. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2024.102939. Epub 2024 Dec 11.
Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) visualizes natively preserved cellular ultrastructure at molecular resolution. Recent developments in sample preparation workflows and image processing tools enable growing applications of cryo-ET in cellular neurobiology. As such, cryo-ET is beginning to unravel the in situ macromolecular organization of neurons using samples of increasing complexity. Here, we highlight advances in cryo-ET technology and review its recent use to study neuronal architecture and its alterations under disease conditions.