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ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2025

Mesoscale volumetric fluorescence imaging at nanoscale resolution by photochemical sectioning.

Wei Wang, Xiongtao Ruan, Gaoxiang Liu, Daniel E Milkie, Wenping Li, Eric Betzig, Srigokul Upadhyayula, Ruixuan Gao

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Wei Wang *Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID 0009-0007-3019-2479
Xiongtao Ruan *Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5322-3249
Gaoxiang Liu *Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1001-0064
Daniel E MilkieHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3917-6965
Wenping LiDepartment of Chemistry, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5917-5380
Eric BetzigDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4192-1274
Srigokul UpadhyayulaDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6727-5883
Ruixuan GaoDepartment of Chemistry, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7137-2512

Funding

Functional and cell-type specific axonal pathways in the primate brainUG3MH126864 · NIMH · ALLEN INSTITUTE · PI REID, R CLAY · 2021 to 2023
$5.2M
NIMH NIH HHS UG3 MH126864
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Optical nanoscopy of intact biological specimens has been transformed by recent advancements in hydrogel-based tissue clearing and expansion, enabling the imaging of cellular and subcellular structures with molecular contrast. However, existing high-resolution fluorescence microscopes are physically limited by objective-to-specimen distance, which prevents the study of whole-mount specimens without physical sectioning. To address this challenge, we developed a photochemical strategy for spatially precise sectioning of specimens. By combining serial photochemical sectioning with lattice light-sheet imaging and petabyte-scale computation, we imaged and reconstructed axons and myelin sheaths across entire mouse olfactory bulbs at nanoscale resolution. An olfactory bulb-wide analysis of myelinated and unmyelinated axons revealed distinctive patterns of axon degeneration and de-/dysmyelination in the neurodegenerative brain, highlighting the potential for peta- to exabyte-scale super-resolution studies using this approach.

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AxonsOlfactory BulbOptical ImagingAnimalsMiceMicroscopy, FluorescenceMyelin SheathNanotechnologyPhotochemical Processes

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PMID41100598
PMCPMC13617513

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