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CELL REPORTS
Volume 16, Issue 4, Pages 1138-1152Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.06.060
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- U.S. NIH [NIA:AG09464]
- Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation
- Cure Alzheimer's Fund
- Empire State Stem Cell Fund through NYSDOH [C023046]
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Amyloidosis is a major problem in over one hundred diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Using the iDISCO visualization method involving targeted molecular labeling, tissue clearing, and light-sheet microscopy, we studied plaque formation in the intact AD mouse brain at up to 27 months of age. We visualized amyloid plaques in 3D together with tau, microglia, and vasculature. Volume imaging coupled to automated detection and mapping enables precise and fast quantification of plaques within the entire intact mouse brain. The present methodology is also applicable to analysis of frozen human brain samples without specialized preservation. Remarkably, amyloid plaques in human brain tissues showed greater 3D complexity and surprisingly large three-dimensional amyloid patterns, or TAPs. The ability to visualize amyloid in 3D, especially in the context of their micro-environment, and the discovery of large TAPs may have important scientific and medical implications.
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