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ArticleScientific reports2016

Bioorthogonal chemical imaging of metabolic activities in live mammalian hippocampal tissues with stimulated Raman scattering.

Fanghao Hu, Michael R Lamprecht, Lu Wei, Barclay Morrison, Wei Min

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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35citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 365 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  13. Raman Spectroscopy as a Tool to Study the Pathophysiology of Brain Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  14. Raman Spectroscopy for Chemical Biology Research.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2022
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  20. Advances in stimulated Raman scattering imaging for tissues and animals.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Fanghao HuDepartment of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
Michael R LamprechtDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
Lu WeiDepartment of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
Barclay MorrisonDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
Wei MinDepartment of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
Columbia University · US

Funding

Label-Free Chemical Imaging for Biological ApplicationsDP2EB016573 · NIBIB · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI MIN, WEI · 2012 to 2012
$2.4M
Optical imaging of small bio-molecules in living cells and tissues by nonlinear Raman microscopy coupled with vibrational tagsR01EB020892 · NIBIB · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI MIN, WEI · 2015 to 2018
$1.3M
NIBIB NIH HHS DP2 EB016573NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB020892
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brain is an immensely complex system displaying dynamic and heterogeneous metabolic activities. Visualizing cellular metabolism of nucleic acids, proteins, and lipids in brain with chemical specificity has been a long-standing challenge. Recent development in metabolic labeling of small biomolecules allows the study of these metabolisms at the global level. However, these techniques generally require nonphysiological sample preparation for either destructive mass spectrometry imaging or secondary labeling with relatively bulky fluorescent labels. In this study, we have demonstrated bioorthogonal chemical imaging of DNA, RNA, protein and lipid metabolism in live rat brain hippocampal tissues by coupling stimulated Raman scattering microscopy with integrated deuterium and alkyne labeling. Heterogeneous metabolic incorporations for different molecular species and neurogenesis with newly-incorporated DNA were observed in the dentate gyrus of hippocampus at the single cell level. We further applied this platform to study metabolic responses to traumatic brain injury in hippocampal slice cultures, and observed marked upregulation of protein and lipid metabolism particularly in the hilus region of the hippocampus within days of mechanical injury. Thus, our method paves the way for the study of complex metabolic profiles in live brain tissue under both physiological and pathological conditions with single-cell resolution and minimal perturbation.

Indexed as

Spectrum Analysis, RamanActivation, MetabolicAlkynesAnimalsBrainBrain Injuries, TraumaticCholineDeuteriumFatty AcidsHippocampusLipid MetabolismMass SpectrometryMicroscopyNucleic AcidsPhospholipidsRatsAlkynesCholineDeuteriumFatty AcidsNucleic AcidsPhospholipids

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PMID28000773
PMCPMC5175176
OpenAlexW2566147354

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