One-chip sensing device (biomedical photonic LSI) enabled to assess hippocampal steep and gradual up-regulated proteolytic activities.
We developed an implantable one-chip biofluoroimaging device (termed biomedical photonic LSI; BpLSI) which enabled real-time molecular imaging with conventional electrophysiology in vivo in deep brain areas. The multimodal LSI enabled long-term sequential imaging of the fluorescence emitted by proteolysis-linked fluorogenic substrate. Using the BpLSI, we observed a process of stimulation-dependent modulation at synapse with multi-site (16 x 19 pixel) in widespread area and a high-speed video rate, and found that the gradual up-regulated proteolytic activity in a wide range of hippocampal CA1 area and the steep activity in local area, indicating that the proteolysis system is a basis for the fixation of long-term potentiation in post-excited synapses in the hippocampus. Mathematical data analysis confirmed the direct involvement of functional proteolysis for neural plasticity.
Tamura
Hideki
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Division of Structural Cell Biology, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0192, Japan.
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Tokuda
Takashi
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Naoki
Honda
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Nakagawa
Takuma
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Mizuno
Taro
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Hatanaka
Yumiko
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Ishikawa
Yasuyuki
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Ohta
Jun
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Shiosaka
Sadao
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