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author Bryce Chung
Muneeb Zia
Kyle A Thomas
Jonathan A Michaels
Amanda Jacob
Andrea Pack
Matthew J Williams
Kailash Nagapudi
Lay Heng Teng
Eduardo Arrambide
Logan Ouellette
Nicole Oey
Rhuna Gibbs
Philip Anschutz
Jiaao Lu
Yu Wu
Mehrdad Kashefi
Tomomichi Oya
Rhonda Kersten
Alice C Mosberger
Sean O'Connell
Runming Wang
Hugo Marques
Ana Rita Mendes
Constanze Lenschow
Gayathri Kondakath
Jeong Jun Kim
William Olson
Kiara N Quinn
Pierce Perkins
Graziana Gatto
Ayesha Thanawalla
Susan Coltman
Taegyo Kim
Trevor Smith
Ben Binder-Markey
Martin Zaback
Christopher K Thompson
Simon Giszter
Abigail Person
Martyn Goulding
Eiman Azim
Nitish Thakor
Daniel O'Connor
Barry Trimmer
Susana Q Lima
Megan R Carey
Chethan Pandarinath
Rui M Costa
J Andrew Pruszynski
Muhannad Bakir
Samuel J Sober
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Muneeb Zia
Kyle A Thomas
Jonathan A Michaels
Amanda Jacob
Andrea Pack
Matthew J Williams
Kailash Nagapudi
Lay Heng Teng
Eduardo Arrambide
Logan Ouellette
Nicole Oey
Rhuna Gibbs
Philip Anschutz
Jiaao Lu
Yu Wu
Mehrdad Kashefi
Tomomichi Oya
Rhonda Kersten
Alice C Mosberger
Sean O'Connell
Runming Wang
Hugo Marques
Ana Rita Mendes
Constanze Lenschow
Gayathri Kondakath
Jeong Jun Kim
William Olson
Kiara N Quinn
Pierce Perkins
Graziana Gatto
Ayesha Thanawalla
Susan Coltman
Taegyo Kim
Trevor Smith
Ben Binder-Markey
Martin Zaback
Christopher K Thompson
Simon Giszter
Abigail Person
Martyn Goulding
Eiman Azim
Nitish Thakor
Daniel O'Connor
Barry Trimmer
Susana Q Lima
Megan R Carey
Chethan Pandarinath
Rui M Costa
J Andrew Pruszynski
Muhannad Bakir
Samuel J Sober
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description Neurons coordinate their activity to produce an astonishing variety of motor behaviors. Our present understanding of motor control has grown rapidly thanks to new methods for recording and analyzing populations of many individual neurons over time. In contrast, current methods for recording the nervous system’s actual motor output – the activation of muscle fibers by motor neurons – typically cannot detect the individual electrical events produced by muscle fibers during natural behaviors and scale poorly across species and muscle groups. Here we present a novel class of electrode devices (‘Myomatrix arrays’) that record muscle activity at unprecedented resolution across muscles and behaviors. High-density, flexible electrode arrays allow for stable recordings from the muscle fibers activated by a single motor neuron, called a ‘motor unit,’ during natural behaviors in many species, including mice, rats, primates, songbirds, frogs, and insects. This technology therefore allows the nervous system’s motor output to be monitored in unprecedented detail during complex behaviors across species and muscle morphologies. We anticipate that this technology will allow rapid advances in understanding the neural control of behavior and identifying pathologies of the motor system.
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spelling doaj.art-e563cae1ff0846e3ac2f96ce86dc95ca2023-12-19T15:59:34ZengeLife Sciences Publications LtdeLife2050-084X2023-12-011210.7554/eLife.88551Myomatrix arrays for high-definition muscle recordingBryce Chung0Muneeb Zia1Kyle A Thomas2Jonathan A Michaels3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5179-3181Amanda Jacob4Andrea Pack5Matthew J Williams6Kailash Nagapudi7Lay Heng Teng8Eduardo Arrambide9Logan Ouellette10Nicole Oey11Rhuna Gibbs12Philip Anschutz13Jiaao Lu14https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7973-1679Yu Wu15Mehrdad Kashefi16https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5981-5923Tomomichi Oya17https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1233-6356Rhonda Kersten18Alice C Mosberger19https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1114-1469Sean O'Connell20Runming Wang21Hugo Marques22https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8709-4841Ana Rita Mendes23Constanze Lenschow24Gayathri Kondakath25Jeong Jun Kim26William Olson27Kiara N Quinn28Pierce Perkins29Graziana Gatto30https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4244-8925Ayesha Thanawalla31Susan Coltman32Taegyo Kim33Trevor Smith34Ben Binder-Markey35https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8920-4381Martin Zaback36Christopher K Thompson37Simon Giszter38Abigail Person39https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9805-7600Martyn Goulding40Eiman Azim41https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1015-1772Nitish Thakor42Daniel O'Connor43Barry Trimmer44Susana Q Lima45Megan R Carey46https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4499-1657Chethan Pandarinath47Rui M Costa48https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1707-1051J Andrew Pruszynski49https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0786-0081Muhannad Bakir50Samuel J Sober51https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1140-7469Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, United StatesSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United StatesGraduate Program in Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech, Atlanta, United StatesDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University, London, CanadaDepartment of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, United StatesNeuroscience Graduate Program, Emory University, Atlanta, United StatesGraduate Program in Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech, Atlanta, United StatesDepartment of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, United StatesDepartment of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, United StatesDepartment of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, United StatesDepartment of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, United StatesDepartment of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, United StatesDepartment of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, United StatesGraduate Program in BioEngineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, United StatesGraduate Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, United StatesSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United StatesDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University, London, CanadaDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University, London, CanadaDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University, London, CanadaZuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University, New York, United StatesGraduate Program in Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech, Atlanta, United StatesDepartment of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech, Atlanta, United StatesChampalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PortugalChampalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PortugalChampalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PortugalDepartment of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, United StatesSolomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, United StatesSolomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, United StatesDepartments of Biomedical Engineering and Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, United StatesDepartments of Biomedical Engineering and Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, United StatesSalk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, United StatesSalk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, United StatesDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, United StatesDepartment of Neurobiology & Anatomy, Drexel University, College of Medicine, Philadelphia, United StatesDepartment of Neurobiology & Anatomy, Drexel University, College of Medicine, Philadelphia, United StatesDepartment of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions, Philadelphia, United StatesDepartment of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, United StatesDepartment of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, United StatesDepartment of Neurobiology & Anatomy, Drexel University, College of Medicine, Philadelphia, United StatesDepartment of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, United States; Allen Institute, Seattle, United StatesSalk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, United StatesSalk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, United StatesDepartments of Biomedical Engineering and Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, United StatesSolomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, United StatesDepartment of Biology, Tufts University, Medford, United StatesChampalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PortugalChampalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PortugalDepartment of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech, Atlanta, United StatesZuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University, New York, United StatesDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University, London, CanadaSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United StatesDepartment of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, United StatesNeurons coordinate their activity to produce an astonishing variety of motor behaviors. Our present understanding of motor control has grown rapidly thanks to new methods for recording and analyzing populations of many individual neurons over time. In contrast, current methods for recording the nervous system’s actual motor output – the activation of muscle fibers by motor neurons – typically cannot detect the individual electrical events produced by muscle fibers during natural behaviors and scale poorly across species and muscle groups. Here we present a novel class of electrode devices (‘Myomatrix arrays’) that record muscle activity at unprecedented resolution across muscles and behaviors. High-density, flexible electrode arrays allow for stable recordings from the muscle fibers activated by a single motor neuron, called a ‘motor unit,’ during natural behaviors in many species, including mice, rats, primates, songbirds, frogs, and insects. This technology therefore allows the nervous system’s motor output to be monitored in unprecedented detail during complex behaviors across species and muscle morphologies. We anticipate that this technology will allow rapid advances in understanding the neural control of behavior and identifying pathologies of the motor system.https://elifesciences.org/articles/88551Bengalese finchfroghawk mothEMGelectrodemotor systems
spellingShingle Bryce Chung
Muneeb Zia
Kyle A Thomas
Jonathan A Michaels
Amanda Jacob
Andrea Pack
Matthew J Williams
Kailash Nagapudi
Lay Heng Teng
Eduardo Arrambide
Logan Ouellette
Nicole Oey
Rhuna Gibbs
Philip Anschutz
Jiaao Lu
Yu Wu
Mehrdad Kashefi
Tomomichi Oya
Rhonda Kersten
Alice C Mosberger
Sean O'Connell
Runming Wang
Hugo Marques
Ana Rita Mendes
Constanze Lenschow
Gayathri Kondakath
Jeong Jun Kim
William Olson
Kiara N Quinn
Pierce Perkins
Graziana Gatto
Ayesha Thanawalla
Susan Coltman
Taegyo Kim
Trevor Smith
Ben Binder-Markey
Martin Zaback
Christopher K Thompson
Simon Giszter
Abigail Person
Martyn Goulding
Eiman Azim
Nitish Thakor
Daniel O'Connor
Barry Trimmer
Susana Q Lima
Megan R Carey
Chethan Pandarinath
Rui M Costa
J Andrew Pruszynski
Muhannad Bakir
Samuel J Sober
Myomatrix arrays for high-definition muscle recording
eLife
Bengalese finch
frog
hawk moth
EMG
electrode
motor systems
title Myomatrix arrays for high-definition muscle recording
title_full Myomatrix arrays for high-definition muscle recording
title_fullStr Myomatrix arrays for high-definition muscle recording
title_full_unstemmed Myomatrix arrays for high-definition muscle recording
title_short Myomatrix arrays for high-definition muscle recording
title_sort myomatrix arrays for high definition muscle recording
topic Bengalese finch
frog
hawk moth
EMG
electrode
motor systems
url https://elifesciences.org/articles/88551
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