TY - JOUR
T1 - Calcium-dependent molecular fMRI using a magnetic nanosensor
AU - Okada, Satoshi
AU - Bartelle, Benjamin B.
AU - Li, Nan
AU - Breton-Provencher, Vincent
AU - Lee, Jiyoung J.
AU - Rodriguez, Elisenda
AU - Melican, James
AU - Sur, Mriganka
AU - Jasanoff, Alan
N1 - Funding Information:
Project funding was provided by NIH grants R01-DA038642, DP2-OD2114, BRAIN Initiative award U01-NS090451 and an MIT Simons Center for the Social Brain Seed Grant to A.J., as well as NIH grant R01-EY007023 to M.S. S.O. was supported by RGO, a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad and an Uehara Memorial Foundation postdoctoral fellowship. E.R. was supported by a Beatriu de Pinós Fellowship from the Government of Catalonia. We thank W. White for assistance with the BLI experiments, S. Bricault for help with data analysis and D. Pheasant at the MIT Biophysical Instrumentation Facility (BIF) for training and assistance with circular dichroism and BLI measurements; BIF instruments are available thanks to NSF grant 0070319 and NIH grant S10-OD016326. We are grateful to J. T. Littleton and J. Lee for supplying the C2AB-expression clone.
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© 2018 The Author(s).
PY - 2018/6/1
Y1 - 2018/6/1
N2 - Calcium ions are ubiquitous signalling molecules in all multicellular organisms, where they mediate diverse aspects of intracellular and extracellular communication over widely varying temporal and spatial scales 1. Though techniques to map calcium-related activity at a high resolution by optical means are well established, there is currently no reliable method to measure calcium dynamics over large volumes in intact tissue 2. Here, we address this need by introducing a family of magnetic calcium-responsive nanoparticles (MaCaReNas) that can be detected by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MaCaReNas respond within seconds to [Ca2+] changes in the 0.1-1.0 mM range, suitable for monitoring extracellular calcium signalling processes in the brain. We show that the probes permit the repeated detection of brain activation in response to diverse stimuli in vivo. MaCaReNas thus provide a tool for calcium-activity mapping in deep tissue and offer a precedent for the development of further nanoparticle-based sensors for dynamic molecular imaging with MRI.
AB - Calcium ions are ubiquitous signalling molecules in all multicellular organisms, where they mediate diverse aspects of intracellular and extracellular communication over widely varying temporal and spatial scales 1. Though techniques to map calcium-related activity at a high resolution by optical means are well established, there is currently no reliable method to measure calcium dynamics over large volumes in intact tissue 2. Here, we address this need by introducing a family of magnetic calcium-responsive nanoparticles (MaCaReNas) that can be detected by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MaCaReNas respond within seconds to [Ca2+] changes in the 0.1-1.0 mM range, suitable for monitoring extracellular calcium signalling processes in the brain. We show that the probes permit the repeated detection of brain activation in response to diverse stimuli in vivo. MaCaReNas thus provide a tool for calcium-activity mapping in deep tissue and offer a precedent for the development of further nanoparticle-based sensors for dynamic molecular imaging with MRI.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41565-018-0092-4
DO - 10.1038/s41565-018-0092-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 29713073
AN - SCOPUS:85045106786
SN - 1748-3387
VL - 13
SP - 473
EP - 477
JO - Nature Nanotechnology
JF - Nature Nanotechnology
IS - 6
ER -