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Long-term in vivo monitoring of gliotic sheathing of ultrathin entropic coated brain microprobes with fiber-based optical coherence tomography

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JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING
卷 18, 期 4, 页码 -

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/abebc2

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neural interfaces; foreign body reaction; optical coherence tomography; immunohistochemistry; plasma coating; biocompatibility

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  1. BrainLinks-BrainToolsCluster of Excellence - German Research Foundation (DFG) [EXC 1086]
  2. German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [FMT-13GW0230A]

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The study used Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) to monitor tissue response to chronically implanted neural probes in real time. The results showed that the plasma-coated implants only slightly improved the glial encapsulation in the brain parenchyma, indicating mechanical influences may dominate the encapsulation process. This approach provides valuable insights into long-term monitoring and comparison of tissue response to neural probes with and without plasma coating in living animal models.
Objective. Microfabricated neuroprosthetic devices have made possible important observations on neuron activity; however, long-term high-fidelity recording performance of these devices has yet to be realized. Tissue-device interactions appear to be a primary source of lost recording performance. The current state of the art for visualizing the tissue response surrounding brain implants in animals is immunohistochemistry + confocal microscopy, which is mainly performed after sacrificing the animal. Monitoring the tissue response as it develops could reveal important features of the response which may inform improvements in electrode design. Approach. Optical coherence tomography (OCT), an imaging technique commonly used in ophthalmology, has already been adapted for imaging of brain tissue. Here, we use OCT to achieve real-time, in vivo monitoring of the tissue response surrounding chronically implanted neural devices. The employed tissue-response-provoking implants are coated with a plasma-deposited nanofilm, which has been demonstrated as a biocompatible and anti-inflammatory interface for indwelling devices. We evaluate the method by comparing the OCT results to traditional histology qualitatively and quantitatively. Main results. The differences in OCT signal across the implantation period between the plasma group and the control reveal that the plasma-type coating of otherwise rigid brain probes (glass) only slightly improve the glial encapsulation in the brain parenchyma indicating that geometrical or mechanical influences are dominating the encapsulation process. Significance. Our approach can long-term monitor and compare the tissue-response to chronically-implanted neural probes with and withour plasma coating in living animal models. Our findings provide valuable insigh to the well acknowledged yet not solved challenge.

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