論文

査読有り
2018年6月19日

Noninvasive mechanochemical imaging in unconstrained Caenorhabditis elegans

Materials
  • Takuma Sugi
  • ,
  • Ryuji Igarashi
  • ,
  • Masaki Nishimura

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開始ページ
1034
終了ページ
1034
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.3390/ma11061034
出版者・発行元
MDPI AG

Physical forces are transduced into chemical reactions, thereby ultimately making a large impact on the whole-animal level phenotypes such as homeostasis, development and behavior. To understand mechano-chemical transduction, mechanical input should be quantitatively delivered with controllable vibration properties-frequency, amplitude and duration, and its chemical output should be noninvasively quantified in an unconstrained animal. However, such an experimental system has not been established so far. Here, we develop a noninvasive and unconstrained mechanochemical imaging microscopy. This microscopy enables us to evoke nano-scale nonlocalized vibrations with controllable vibration properties using a piezoelectric acoustic transducer system and quantify calcium response of a freely moving C. elegans at a single cell resolution. Using this microscopy, we clearly detected the calcium response of a single interneuron during C. elegans escape response to nano-scale vibration. Thus, this microscopy will facilitate understanding of in vivo mechanochemical physiology in the future.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/ma11061034
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29921777
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.3390/ma11061034
  • ISSN : 1996-1944
  • PubMed ID : 29921777
  • SCOPUS ID : 85048930571

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