Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Functional mapping of brain synapses by the enriching activity-marker SynaptoZip

  • Mattia Ferro,
  • Jacopo Lamanna,
  • Maddalena Ripamonti,
  • Gabriella Racchetti,
  • Alessandro Arena,
  • Sara Spadini,
  • Giovanni Montesano,
  • Riccardo Cortese,
  • Vincenzo Zimarino,
  • Antonio Malgaroli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01335-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Visualization of synaptic activity in the living brain is challenging. This study devises a simple and efficient scheme that reports synaptic vesicle recycling in vivo using SynaptoZip, a genetically encoded sensor of past synaptic activities.