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JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
Volume -, Issue 178, Pages -Publisher
JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
DOI: 10.3791/63471
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- Motor Neuron Disease Association (UK) [Tosolini/Oct20/973-799]
- Wellcome Trust [107116/Z/15/Z, 223022/Z/21/Z]
- UK Dementia Research Institute Foundation
- Medical Research Council Career Development Award [MR/S006990/1]
- Wellcome Trust [223022/Z/21/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
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This paper details protocols for assessing in vivo axonal transport in mice, including distinguishing between motor and sensory neurons to analyze different neuronal subtypes, and evaluating the transport of signaling endosomes and mitochondria simultaneously. These complementary intravital approaches facilitate quantitative monitoring of axonal transport in health and disease by imaging different cargoes in distinct peripheral nerve axons.
Axonal transport maintains neuronal homeostasis by enabling the bidirectional trafficking of diverse organelles and cargoes. Disruptions in axonal transport have devastating consequences for individual neurons and their networks, and contribute to a plethora of neurological disorders. As many of these conditions involve both cell autonomous and non-autonomous mechanisms, and often display a spectrum of pathology across neuronal subtypes, methods to accurately identify and analyze neuronal subsets are imperative. This paper details protocols to assess in vivo axonal transport of signaling endosomes and mitochondria in sciatic nerves of anesthetized mice. Stepwise instructions are provided to 1) distinguish motor from sensory neurons in vivo, in situ, and ex vivo by using mice that selectively express fluorescent proteins within cholinergic motor neurons; and 2) separately or concurrently assess in vivo axonal transport of signaling endosomes and mitochondria. These complementary intravital approaches facilitate the simultaneous imaging of different cargoes in distinct peripheral nerve axons to quantitatively monitor axonal transport in health and disease.
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