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@INBOOK{Seifert:277733,
author = {Seifert, Gerald and Sommer, Erik and Passlick, Stefan and
Henneberger, Christian},
title = {{S}uper-resolution {A}nalysis of {A}strocyte {M}orphology
{U}sing {E}xpansion {M}icroscopy.},
volume = {2896},
address = {New York, NY},
publisher = {Springer US},
reportid = {DZNE-2025-00454},
isbn = {978-1-0716-4365-5 (print)},
series = {Methods in Molecular Biology},
pages = {165 - 179},
year = {2025},
comment = {Astrocytes / Di Benedetto, Barbara (Editor) ; New York, NY
: Springer US, 2025, Chapter 12 ; ISSN: 1064-3745=1940-6029
; ISBN: 978-1-0716-4365-5=978-1-0716-4366-2 ;
doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-4366-2},
booktitle = {Astrocytes / Di Benedetto, Barbara
(Editor) ; New York, NY : Springer US,
2025, Chapter 12 ; ISSN:
1064-3745=1940-6029 ; ISBN:
978-1-0716-4365-5=978-1-0716-4366-2 ;
doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-4366-2},
abstract = {Analyzing the structure of astrocytes, their specific
morphological features, and their remodeling is important
for understanding how this cell type fulfils its many
functions. This is because cell shape determines the
propagation of intracellular signals and their subcellular
compartmentalization. At the same time, it determines which
other cells in the neuropil an astrocyte is closely in
contact with and can most effectively exchange signals with.
One experimental challenge has been that the most abundant
small astrocytic processes cannot be resolved with
diffraction-limited microscopy. Typically, this obstacle was
overcome by using electron microscopy, but the continuous
development of super-resolution microscopy has produced many
alternative techniques. One is expansion microscopy (ExM)
[1]. ExM, in principle, expands the tissue while preserving
the relative positioning of labels that mark structures of
interest (e.g., fluorescent labels), which increases the
effective spatial resolution of light microscopy without
improving the spatial resolution of the microscope itself.
The advantage of ExM is that it requires only a little more
laboratory infrastructure than immunohistochemistry combined
with confocal fluorescence microscopy. We have previously
applied this universal technique to the analysis of the
structure of astrocytes and of their fine processes and
their perisynaptic arrangement. Here, we present a
comprehensive protocol for visualizing and localizing
astrocytes, synaptic structures, and synaptic and astrocytic
proteins in fixed brain tissue.},
keywords = {Astrocytes: cytology / Astrocytes: ultrastructure /
Astrocytes: metabolism / Animals / Mice / Microscopy:
methods / Microscopy, Fluorescence: methods / Image
Processing, Computer-Assisted: methods / Astrocyte
morphology (Other) / Expansion microscopy (Other) /
Perisynaptic astrocytic processes (Other) / Super-resolution
microscopy (Other)},
cin = {AG Henneberger},
ddc = {570},
cid = {I:(DE-2719)1013029},
pnm = {351 - Brain Function (POF4-351)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-351},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)7},
pubmed = {pmid:40111604},
doi = {10.1007/978-1-0716-4366-2_12},
url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/277733},
}