Freeze-frame imaging of synaptic activity using SynTagMA

Calcium imaging has been used to visualize the activity of individual synapses, but cannot be scaled up to monitor thousands of synapses in tissue. Here, the authors present genetic tools that can be photoconverted from green to red to create a map of active synapses.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alberto Perez-Alvarez, Brenna C. Fearey, Ryan J. O’Toole, Wei Yang, Ignacio Arganda-Carreras, Paul J. Lamothe-Molina, Benjamien Moeyaert, Manuel A. Mohr, Lauren C. Panzera, Christian Schulze, Eric R. Schreiter, J. Simon Wiegert, Christine E. Gee, Michael B. Hoppa, Thomas G. Oertner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16315-4