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Structural and molecular interrogation of intact biological systems

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, April 2013
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Title
Structural and molecular interrogation of intact biological systems
Published in
Nature, April 2013
DOI 10.1038/nature12107
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Authors

Kwanghun Chung, Jenelle Wallace, Sung-Yon Kim, Sandhiya Kalyanasundaram, Aaron S. Andalman, Thomas J. Davidson, Julie J. Mirzabekov, Kelly A. Zalocusky, Joanna Mattis, Aleksandra K. Denisin, Sally Pak, Hannah Bernstein, Charu Ramakrishnan, Logan Grosenick, Viviana Gradinaru, Karl Deisseroth

Abstract

Obtaining high-resolution information from a complex system, while maintaining the global perspective needed to understand system function, represents a key challenge in biology. Here we address this challenge with a method (termed CLARITY) for the transformation of intact tissue into a nanoporous hydrogel-hybridized form (crosslinked to a three-dimensional network of hydrophilic polymers) that is fully assembled but optically transparent and macromolecule-permeable. Using mouse brains, we show intact-tissue imaging of long-range projections, local circuit wiring, cellular relationships, subcellular structures, protein complexes, nucleic acids and neurotransmitters. CLARITY also enables intact-tissue in situ hybridization, immunohistochemistry with multiple rounds of staining and de-staining in non-sectioned tissue, and antibody labelling throughout the intact adult mouse brain. Finally, we show that CLARITY enables fine structural analysis of clinical samples, including non-sectioned human tissue from a neuropsychiatric-disease setting, establishing a path for the transmutation of human tissue into a stable, intact and accessible form suitable for probing structural and molecular underpinnings of physiological function and disease.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 133 3%
United Kingdom 44 <1%
Germany 30 <1%
Japan 27 <1%
Canada 17 <1%
France 16 <1%
Netherlands 15 <1%
Spain 15 <1%
Switzerland 8 <1%
Other 88 2%
Unknown 4368 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 1274 27%
Researcher 1027 22%
Student > Master 476 10%
Student > Bachelor 407 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 243 5%
Other 831 17%
Unknown 503 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1650 35%
Neuroscience 712 15%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 396 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 383 8%
Engineering 341 7%
Other 669 14%
Unknown 610 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 810. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 January 2024.
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#23,288
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Outputs from Nature
#2,263
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#112
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#11
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