| Title: |
CLARITY increases sensitivity and specificity of fluorescence immunostaining in long-term archived human brain tissue. |
| Authors: |
Woelfle, Sarah1,2 (AUTHOR), Deshpande, Dhruva3,4 (AUTHOR), Feldengut, Simone5 (AUTHOR), Braak, Heiko5 (AUTHOR), Del Tredici, Kelly5 (AUTHOR), Roselli, Francesco6,7 (AUTHOR), Deisseroth, Karl8,9,10 (AUTHOR), Michaelis, Jens3 (AUTHOR), Boeckers, Tobias M.1,7 (AUTHOR), Schön, Michael1 (AUTHOR) michael.schoen@uni-ulm.de |
| Source: |
BMC Biology. 5/24/2023, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p1-28. 28p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*SENSITIVITY & specificity (Statistics), *ALZHEIMER'S disease, *IMMUNOSTAINING, *IMMUNOGLOBULINS, *FLUORESCENCE, *MOLECULAR structure |
| Abstract: |
Background: Post mortem human brain tissue is an essential resource to study cell types, connectivity as well as subcellular structures down to the molecular setup of the central nervous system especially with respect to the plethora of brain diseases. A key method is immunostaining with fluorescent dyes, which allows high-resolution imaging in three dimensions of multiple structures simultaneously. Although there are large collections of formalin-fixed brains, research is often limited because several conditions arise that complicate the use of human brain tissue for high-resolution fluorescence microscopy. Results: In this study, we developed a clearing approach for immunofluorescence-based analysis of perfusion- and immersion-fixed post mortem human brain tissue, termed human Clear Lipid-exchanged Acrylamide-hybridized Rigid Imaging / Immunostaining / In situ hybridization-compatible Tissue-hYdrogel (hCLARITY). hCLARITY is optimized for specificity by reducing off-target labeling and yields very sensitive stainings in human brain sections allowing for super-resolution microscopy with unprecedented imaging of pre- and postsynaptic compartments. Moreover, hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease were preserved with hCLARITY, and importantly classical 3,3'-diaminobenzidine (DAB) or Nissl stainings are compatible with this protocol. hCLARITY is very versatile as demonstrated by the use of more than 30 well performing antibodies and allows for de- and subsequent re-staining of the same tissue section, which is important for multi-labeling approaches, e.g., in super-resolution microscopy. Conclusions: Taken together, hCLARITY enables research of the human brain with high sensitivity and down to sub-diffraction resolution. It therefore has enormous potential for the investigation of local morphological changes, e.g., in neurodegenerative diseases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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