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ArticleScientific reports2017

Fast wide-volume functional imaging of engineered in vitro brain tissues.

G Palazzolo, M Moroni, A Soloperto, G Aletti, G Naldi, M Vassalli, T Nieus, F Difato

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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8 authors.

G PalazzoloDepartment of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy.
M MoroniDepartment of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy.
A SolopertoDepartment of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy.
G AlettiDipartimento di Matematica, Università degli studi di Milano, Milano, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7466-2969
G NaldiDipartimento di Matematica, Università degli studi di Milano, Milano, Italy.
M VassalliInstitute of Biophysics, National Research Council of Italy, Genoa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3063-4376
T NieusDepartment of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences "L. Sacco", Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy. thierry.nieus@unimi.it.
F DifatoDepartment of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy. francesco.difato@iit.it.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The need for in vitro models that mimic the human brain to replace animal testing and allow high-throughput screening has driven scientists to develop new tools that reproduce tissue-like features on a chip. Three-dimensional (3D) in vitro cultures are emerging as an unmatched platform that preserves the complexity of cell-to-cell connections within a tissue, improves cell survival, and boosts neuronal differentiation. In this context, new and flexible imaging approaches are required to monitor the functional states of 3D networks. Herein, we propose an experimental model based on 3D neuronal networks in an alginate hydrogel, a tunable wide-volume imaging approach, and an efficient denoising algorithm to resolve, down to single cell resolution, the 3D activity of hundreds of neurons expressing the calcium sensor GCaMP6s. Furthermore, we implemented a 3D co-culture system mimicking the contiguous interfaces of distinct brain tissues such as the cortical-hippocampal interface. The analysis of the network activity of single and layered neuronal co-cultures revealed cell-type-specific activities and an organization of neuronal subpopulations that changed in the two culture configurations. Overall, our experimental platform represents a simple, powerful and cost-effective platform for developing and monitoring living 3D layered brain tissue on chip structures with high resolution and high throughput.

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Models, BiologicalBrainCoculture TechniquesHumansHydrogel, Polyethylene Glycol DimethacrylateNeuronsOptical ImagingOrgan Culture TechniquesHydrogel, Polyethylene Glycol Dimethacrylate

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PMID28819205
PMCPMC5561227

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