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ArticleCell reports methods2025

Combinatorial responsiveness of chemosensory neurons in mouse explants revealed by DynamicNeuroTracker.

Jungsik Noh, Wen Mai Wong, Bo-Jui Chang, Gaudenz Danuser, Julian P Meeks

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Jungsik NohLyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA. Electronic address: jungsik.noh@utsouthwestern.edu.
Wen Mai WongGraduate Program in Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
Bo-Jui ChangLyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
Gaudenz DanuserLyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
Julian P MeeksDepartments of Neuroscience and Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA.

Funding

UT Southwestern NORCP30DK127984 · NIDDK · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI Jeff G McDonald · 2022 to 2026
$7.4M
Image-based modeling of functional connectivity in neural networks at single-cell resolutionK25EB028854 · NIBIB · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI NOH, JUNGSIK · 2020 to 2023
$511k
NIBIB NIH HHS K25 EB028854NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK127984
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Abstract

Calcium fluorescence imaging enables us to investigate how individual neurons of live animals encode sensory input or drive specific behaviors. Extracting and interpreting large-scale neuronal activity from imaging data are crucial steps in harnessing this information. A significant challenge arises from uncorrectable tissue deformation, which disrupts the effectiveness of existing neuron segmentation methods. Here, we propose an open-source software, DynamicNeuronTracker (DyNT), which generates dynamic neuron masks for deforming and/or incompletely registered 3D calcium imaging data using patch-matching iterations. We demonstrate that DyNT accurately tracks densely populated neurons under positional jitters. DyNT also includes automated statistical analyses for interpreting neuronal responses to multiple sequential stimuli. We applied DyNT to analyze the responses of pheromone-sensing neurons in mice to controlled stimulation. We found that four bile acids and four sulfated steroids activated 15 subpopulations of sensory neurons with distinct combinatorial response profiles, revealing a strong bias toward detecting sulfated estrogen and pregnanolone.

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Chemoreceptor CellsSensory Receptor CellsSoftwareAnimalsCalciumMiceMice, Inbred C57BLPheromonesCalciumPheromonesaccessory olfactory systemautomatic neuron segmentationcalcium imagingcombinatorial responsivenessCP: neuroscienceCP: systems biologyneural encodingvomeronasal organvomeronasal sensory neuron

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PMCPMC12664895

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