Near-field imaging of neurotransmitter release and uptake in patterned neuron networks

Patrick Degenaar; Yuji Murakami; Kenji Yokoyama; Eiichi Tamiya; Bruno Le Pioufle; Yiroyuki Fujita

doi:10.1117/12.383348

21 April 2000 Near-field imaging of neurotransmitter release and uptake in patterned neuron networks

Patrick Degenaar, Yuji Murakami, Kenji Yokoyama, Eiichi Tamiya, Bruno Le Pioufle, Yiroyuki Fujita

Proceedings Volume 3922, Scanning and Force Microscopies for Biomedical Applications II; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.383348
Event: BiOS 2000 The International Symposium on Biomedical Optics, 2000, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

A SNOAM system is capable of obtaining simultaneous topographic and optical images with a resolution beyond than the diffraction limit of far field optical imaging. Fluorescence tagging combined with optical resolutions of better than 100nm allow us to detect structures not possible with conventional microscopes. Also in contrast with electron microscopy SNOAM has the ability to look at biological structures in the liquid medium. Presently there is much interest in understanding the processes that lead to LTP in neuron synapses. LTP is widely associated with memory function in neurons. Hence, better understanding will lead to advances in medicine, as well as neuron-based memory and processing devices. Better understanding is also crucial to the development of neuron-electronic interfaces. In this research, neuron networks are grown on a patterned polylysine substrate. Polylysine is patterned using micro lithographic techniques. Neurons are extracted from the hippocampus of chick embryos, and are then grown on this pattern under standard sterile incubating conditions. The neurons are stimulated to release the neurotransmitter glutamate. The glutamate is then fluorescently imaged with Amplex-red SNOAM.

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Patrick Degenaar, Yuji Murakami, Kenji Yokoyama, Eiichi Tamiya, Bruno Le Pioufle, and Yiroyuki Fujita "Near-field imaging of neurotransmitter release and uptake in patterned neuron networks", Proc. SPIE 3922, Scanning and Force Microscopies for Biomedical Applications II, (21 April 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.383348

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