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ArticleeLife2025

The promise and peril of comparing fluorescence lifetime in biology revealed by simulations.

Pingchuan Ma, Peter Chen, Scott Sternson, Yao Chen

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Article in eLife, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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4 authors.

Pingchuan MaDepartment of Neuroscience, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9964-2852
Peter ChenDepartment of Neuroscience, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-8531-5509
Scott SternsonDepartment of Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0835-444X
Yao ChenDepartment of Neuroscience, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/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
Brain and Behavior Research Foundation NARSAD Young Investigator Grant 28323NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS119821Whitehall Foundation 2019-08-64
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Signaling dynamics are crucial in biological systems, and biosensor-based real-time imaging has revolutionized their analysis. Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) excels over the widely used fluorescence intensity imaging by allowing the measurement of absolute signal levels independent of sensor concentration. This capability enables the comparison of signaling dynamics across different animals, body regions, and timeframes. However, FLIM's advantage can be compromised by factors like autofluorescence in biological experiments. To address this, we introduce FLiSimBA, a flexible computational framework for realistic

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Optical ImagingAnimalsComputer SimulationFluorescenceMicroscopy, FluorescenceSignal-To-Noise RatioSignal Transductionbiosensorcell biologyFLiSimBAfluorescence lifetimemultiplexed dynamic imagingneurosciencenonesensor expressionsimulation

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