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ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2019

Broad applicability of a streamlined ethyl cinnamate-based clearing procedure.

Wouter Masselink, Daniel Reumann, Prayag Murawala, Pawel Pasierbek, Yuka Taniguchi, François Bonnay, Katharina Meixner, Jürgen A Knoblich, Elly M Tanaka

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Article in Development (Cambridge, England), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

80 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Ethyl Cinnamate-Based Tissue Clearing Technique on Vocal Fold Mucosa with Vasculature Model.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation · 2025
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  9. Three-dimensional optically cleared tissue imaging for analyzing endoscopic images of gastrointestinal neoplasms (with video).Digestive endoscopy : official journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Wouter MasselinkResearch Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Campus-Vienna-BioCenter 1, 1030 Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-4085-3206
Daniel ReumannInstitute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna BioCenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria.
Prayag MurawalaResearch Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Campus-Vienna-BioCenter 1, 1030 Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-0607-1059
Pawel PasierbekInstitute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna BioCenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria.
Yuka TaniguchiResearch Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Campus-Vienna-BioCenter 1, 1030 Vienna, Austria.
François BonnayInstitute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna BioCenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria.
Katharina MeixnerInstitute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna BioCenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria.
Jürgen A KnoblichInstitute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA), Vienna BioCenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-6751-3404
Elly M TanakaResearch Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Campus-Vienna-BioCenter 1, 1030 Vienna, Austria elly.tanaka@imp.ac.at.ORCID 0000-0003-4240-2158

Funding

Austrian Science Fund FWF I 1281Austrian Science Fund FWF M 2444Austrian Science Fund FWF Z 153European Research Council 695642European Research Council 742046
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Turbidity and opaqueness are inherent properties of tissues that limit the capacity to acquire microscopic images through large tissues. Creating a uniform refractive index, known as tissue clearing, overcomes most of these issues. These methods have enabled researchers to image large and complex 3D structures with unprecedented depth and resolution. However, tissue clearing has been adopted to a limited extent due to a combination of cost, time, complexity of existing methods and potential negative impact on fluorescence signal. Here, we describe 2Eci (2nd generation ethyl cinnamate-based clearing), which can be used to clear a wide range of tissues in several species, including human organoids,

Indexed as

Ambystoma mexicanumAnimalsCinnamatesDrosophila melanogasterFluorescent DyesHumansImaging, Three-DimensionalMicroscopy, FluorescenceOrganoidsXenopus laevisZebrafishCinnamatesethyl cinnamateFluorescent DyesAxolotlCerebral organoidsDrosophilaNon-toxicTissue clearingXenopusZebrafish

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PMID30665888
PMCPMC7115989

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