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Integrative whole-brain neuroscience in larval zebrafish

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  • Gilles C. Vanwalleghem
  • Misha B. Ahrens, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Farm Research Campus
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  • Ethan K. Scott, University of Queensland

Due to their small size and transparency, zebrafish larvae are amenable to a range of fluorescence microscopy techniques. With the development of sensitive genetically encoded calcium indicators, this has extended to the whole-brain imaging of neural activity with cellular resolution. This technique has been used to study brain-wide population dynamics accompanying sensory processing and sensorimotor transformations, and has spurred the development of innovative closed-loop behavioral paradigms in which stimulus–response relationships can be studied. More recently, microscopes have been developed that allow whole-brain calcium imaging in freely swimming and behaving larvae. In this review, we highlight the technologies underlying whole-brain functional imaging in zebrafish, provide examples of the sensory and motor processes that have been studied with this technique, and discuss the need to merge data from whole-brain functional imaging studies with neurochemical and anatomical information to develop holistic models of functional neural circuits.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftCurrent Opinion in Neurobiology
Vol/bind50
Sider (fra-til)136-145
Antal sider10
ISSN0959-4388
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StatusUdgivet - jun. 2018
Eksternt udgivetJa

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