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ReviewNature protocols2024

Spatial analysis of tissue immunity and vascularity by light sheet fluorescence microscopy.

Duo Zhang, Abigail H Cleveland, Elisavet Krimitza, Katherine Han, Chenlong Yi, Andrea L Stout, Wei Zou, Jay F Dorsey, Yanqing Gong, Yi Fan

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In one paragraph

Review in Nature protocols, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
7.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Prototype-based AI triage for 3D pathology.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  3. Guidelines for evaluating endothelial function in vascular tissue.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2026
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  5. Emerging Light-Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy for Cardiac Vascular Imaging in Zebrafish.Current treatment options in cardiovascular medicine · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Duo ZhangDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Abigail H ClevelandDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3502-5940
Elisavet KrimitzaDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID 0009-0008-3658-8965
Katherine HanDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Chenlong YiDepartment of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Andrea L StoutDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Wei ZouDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Jay F DorseyDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Yanqing GongDepartment of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. gongy@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-9670-8385
Yi FanDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. fanyi@upenn.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-6290-0595
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Endothelial plasticity in glioma vascularization and therapy resistanceR01NS094533 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Yi Fan · 2015 to 2026
$4.3M
Endothelial plasticity in cardiac repair after myocardial infarctionR01HL155198 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI FAN, YI, GONG, YANQING · 2021 to 2024
$2.4M
Dissecting the biology and consequence of circulating glioma cellsR01CA241501 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI DORSEY, JAY FITZGERALD, FAN, YI · 2020 to 2024
$2.3M
Macrophage polarization in glioma microenvironmentR01NS106108 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI FAN, YI · 2018 to 2022
$2.0M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA241501NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL155198NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS094533NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS106108
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The pathogenesis of cancer and cardiovascular diseases is subjected to spatiotemporal regulation by the tissue microenvironment. Multiplex visualization of the microenvironmental components, including immune cells, vasculature and tissue hypoxia, provides critical information underlying the disease progression and therapy resistance, which is often limited by imaging depth and resolution in large-volume tissues. To this end, light sheet fluorescence microscopy, following tissue clarification and immunostaining, may generate three-dimensional high-resolution images at a whole-organ level. Here we provide a detailed description of light sheet fluorescence microscopy imaging analysis of immune cell composition, vascularization, tissue perfusion and hypoxia in mouse normal brains and hearts, as well as brain tumors. We describe a procedure for visualizing tissue vascularization, perfusion and hypoxia with a transgenic vascular labeling system. We provide the procedures for tissue collection, tissue semi-clearing and immunostaining. We further describe standard methods for analyzing tissue immunity and vascularity. We anticipate that this method will facilitate the spatial illustration of structure and function of the tissue microenvironmental components in cancer and cardiovascular diseases. The procedure requires 1-2 weeks and can be performed by users with expertise in general molecular biology.

Indexed as

Brain NeoplasmsCardiovascular DiseasesAnimalsHypoxiaImaging, Three-DimensionalMiceMicroscopy, FluorescenceSpatial AnalysisTumor Microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID38212641
PMCPMC12276897
OpenAlexW4390740952

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