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ArticleScience advances2024

Fast and slow: Recording neuromodulator dynamics across both transient and chronic time scales.

Pingchuan Ma, Peter Chen, Elizabeth I Tilden, Samarth Aggarwal, Anna Oldenborg, Yao Chen

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6 authors.

Pingchuan MaDepartment of Neuroscience, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9964-2852
Peter ChenDepartment of Neuroscience, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Elizabeth I TildenDepartment of Neuroscience, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6560-3863
Samarth AggarwalDepartment of Neuroscience, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Anna OldenborgDepartment of Neuroscience, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Yao ChenDepartment of Neuroscience, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1509-6634

Funding

Spatial, temporal, and context-dependent features of protein kinase A activityR01NS119821 · NINDS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Yao Chen · 2021 to 2026
$2.4M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS119821
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuromodulators transform animal behaviors. Recent research has demonstrated the importance of both sustained and transient change in neuromodulators, likely due to tonic and phasic neuromodulator release. However, no method could simultaneously record both types of dynamics. Fluorescence lifetime of optical reporters could offer a solution because it allows high temporal resolution and is impervious to sensor expression differences across chronic periods. Nevertheless, no fluorescence lifetime change across the entire classes of neuromodulator sensors was previously known. Unexpectedly, we find that several intensity-based neuromodulator sensors also exhibit fluorescence lifetime responses. Furthermore, we show that lifetime measures in vivo neuromodulator dynamics both with high temporal resolution and with consistency across animals and time. Thus, we report a method that can simultaneously measure neuromodulator change over transient and chronic time scales, promising to reveal the roles of multi-time scale neuromodulator dynamics in diseases, in response to therapies, and across development and aging.

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AgingNeurotransmitter AgentsAnimalsNeurotransmitter Agents

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PMID38381826
PMCPMC10881037

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