SeeDB-Live preprint: Inagaki et al., Isotonic and minimally invasive optical clearing media for live cell imaging ex vivo and in vivo. bioRxiv
The preprint was fertured by The Transmitter.
Post-hoc correction of chromatic aberrations in cleared samples. Leiwe MN, Fujimoto S, Imai T. Post hoc Correction of Chromatic Aberrations in Large-Scale Volumetric Images in Confocal Microscopy. Front Neuroanat (2021)
The Tetbow image is now in a science museum, Miraikan, in Tokyo. See the image.
Tetbow image was featured as The Most Stunning Neuroscience Image 2018 (by Forbes) and The Photo of the Year 2018 (The Scientist).
Addgene blog post on Tetbow was published.
SeeDB and SeeDB2 have been commercialized from FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical: SeeDB Kit and SeeDB2 Kit.
The first-generation immersion-based clearing agent for morphological analyses of neurons.
>> Ke et al., Nat Neurosci (2013)
>> SeeDB Videos
An immersion-based clearing agent for high-resolution imaging.
Bright Brainbow-like multicolor labeling with up to 7 fluorescent proteins. Plasmids and AAV vectors are available.
>> Sakaguchi et al., eLife (2018)
Post-hoc correction programs for chromatic aberrations in cleared samples.
>> Leiwe et al., Front Neuroanat (2021)
>> [GitHub]
Image J/Fiji plugin for channel unmixing of fluorescent signals.
>> [Github]
Automated neuronal reconstruction using super-multicolor Tetbow and hue-based neurite identification.
AAV vectors for 21-plex circuit tracing.
>> Moriyasu et al., unpublished
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