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Blinder, P.

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Cortical microinfarcts caused by single penetrating vessel occlusion lead to widespread reorganization across the entire brain in a CX3CR1 dependent manner

1. Introduction 1. Introduction 2. Results 3. Discussion 4. Methods and Materials 6. Author Contribution 7. Competing interests References Dementia, and the associated cognitive impairment that goes along with it, have been attributed to a plethora of different mechanisms. As proper brain function is tightly coupled with the on-demand supply of oxygen and nutrients to active areas, perturbation to blood flow and the resulting neurovas-cular uncoupling play a crucial role in the ethology of these pathologies [1, 2, 3], even before the onset of the clinical symptoms [4]. Although research has traditionally focused on systemic and large-scale perturbations such as hypertension and stroke, cortical microinfarcts emerge nowaday ...

neuroscience

PySight: plug and play photon counting for fast intravital microscopy

Imaging increasingly large neuronal populations at high rates pushed multi-photon microscopy into the photon-deprived regime. We present PySight, an add-on hardware and software solution tailored for photon-deprived imaging conditions. PySight more than triples the median amplitude of neuronal calcium transients in awake mice, and facilitates single-trial intravital voltage imaging in fruit flies. Its unique data streaming architecture allowed us to image a fruit flys olfactory response over 234 x; 600 x; 330{micro}m3 at 73 volumes per second, outperforming top-tier imaging setups while retaining over 200 times lower data rates. PySight requires no electronics expertise nor custom synchronization boards, and its open-source software is extensible to any imaging method based on single-pixel (bucket) detectors. PySight offers an optimal data acquisition scheme for ever increasing imaging volumes of turbid living tissue.

neuroscience