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Studying Axonal Transport in the Brain by Manganese-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MEMRI).
From the earliest notions of dynamic movements within the cell by Leeuwenhoek, intracellular transport in eukaryotes has been primarily explored by optical imaging. The giant axon of the squid became a prime experimental model for imaging transport due to its size, optical transparency, and physiological robustness. Even the biochemical basis of transport was identified using optical assays based on video microscopy of fractionated squid axoplasm. Discoveries about the dynamics and molecular components of the intracellular transport system continued in many model organisms that afforded experimental systems for optical imaging. Yet whether these experimental systems reflected a valid picture of axonal transport in the opaque mammalian brain was unknown.Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides a non-destructive approach to peer into opaque tissues like the brain . The paramagnetic ion, manganese (MnII), gives a hyperintense signal in T1 weighted MRI that can serve as a marker for axonal transport. Mn(II) enters active neurons via voltage-gated calcium channels and is transported via microtubule motors down their axons by fast axonal transport. Clearance of Mn(II) is slow. Scanning live animals at successive time points reveals the dynamics of Mn(II) transport by detecting Mn(II)-induced intensity increases or accumulations along a known fiber tract, such as the optic nerve or hippocampal-forebrain projections. Mn(II)-based tract tracing also reveals projections even when not in fiber bundles, such as projections in the olfactory system or from medial prefrontal cortex into midbrain and brain stem. The rate of Mn(II) accumulation, detected as increased signal intensity by MR, serves as a proxy for transport rates. Here we describe the method for measuring transport rates and projections by mangeses-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging, MEMRI.
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