这里描述了用于准备不同发育阶段的果蝇并使用定制的光学相干显微镜 (OCM) 系统对果蝇心跳进行纵向光学成像的实验方案。通过分析 OCM 图像中的心脏结构和功能参数,可以定量表征心脏形态和动力学变化。
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这里描述了用于准备不同发育阶段的果蝇并使用定制的光学相干显微镜 (OCM) 系统对果蝇心跳进行纵向光学成像的实验方案。通过分析 OCM 图像中的心脏结构和功能参数,可以定量表征心脏形态和动力学变化。
小动物心跳的纵向研究有助于了解心脏发育过程中的结构和功能变化。光学相干显微镜 (OCM) 已被证明能够以高空间分辨率和超高成像速度对小动物心脏进行成像。高图像对比度和无创特性使 OCM 成为进行纵向研究的理想选择,无需组织解剖或染色。果蝇因其大量直系同源人类疾病基因、分子机制和遗传途径与脊椎动物相似、生命周期短、培养成本低等优点,在心脏发育研究中被广泛用作模式生物。在这里,描述了在标本的整个生命周期中使用定制的 OCM 系统制备果蝇和心跳光学成像的实验方案。按照本报告中提供的步骤,可以获取横向 M 型和 3D OCM 图像,以对果蝇的心脏形态和功能进行纵向研究。还显示了面部和轴向截面 OCM 图像以及心率 (HR) 和心脏活动期 (CAP) 直方图,以分析果蝇过程中的心脏结构变化并量化心脏动力学,并结合用 M 模式图像构建的视频直观地追踪心脏活动。由于果蝇和脊椎动物之间的遗传相似性,对果蝇心脏形态和动力学的纵向研究有助于揭示人类心脏病的起源。这里的协议将提供一种有效的方法来进行广泛的研究,以了解人类心脏病的机制。
Longitudinal study of the heart in small animals contributes to understanding a variety of human related cardiovascular diseases, such as gene related congenital heart defects1,2. In the past decades, various animal models, such as mouse3,4, Xenopus5,6, zebrafish7,8, avian9, and Drosophila10-16, have been used to conduct the human heart-development related research. The mouse model has been widely used to study normal and abnormal cardiac development and cardiac defect phenotypes due to its similarities with the human heart3,4. The Xenopus embryo is especially useful in the study of heart development due to its easy handling and partial transparency5,6. The transparency of the embryo and early larva of the zebrafish model allows for easy optical observation of cardiac development7,8. The avian model is a common subject of developmental heart studies because the heart can be easily accessed after removing the eggshells and the morphological similarity of avian hearts to humans9. The Drosophila model has some unique features which make it ideal for performing longitudinal studies of the heart. First, the heart tube of Drosophila is ~ 200 µm below the dorsal surface, which provides convenience for optical access and observation of the heart. Additionally, many molecular mechanisms and genetic pathways are conserved between Drosophila and vertebrates. The orthologs of over 75% of human disease genes were found in Drosophila, which have made it widely used in transgenic studies11,13. Furthermore, it has a short life cycle and low maintenance costs, and has been commonly used as a specimen model for developmental biology research14-16.
Previous reports described the protocols for monitoring Drosophila cardiac functions such as the heartbeat. However, dissection procedures were required17,18. Optical imaging provides an effective way to visualize cardiac development in animals due to its non-invasive nature. Different optical imaging modalities have been applied in performing animal cardiac study, such as two-photon microscopy19, confocal microscopy20,21, light sheet microscopy22, and optical coherence tomography (OCT)16,23-26. Comparatively, OCT is capable of providing great imaging depth in small animal hearts without using contrast agents, while keeping a high resolution and an ultrahigh imaging speed, which are important for imaging live animals. Additionally, the low cost of developing an OCT system has popularized this technique for optical imaging of specimens. OCT has been successfully used for the longitudinal study of Drosophila. Using OCT, cardiac morphological and functional imaging has been performed to study the heart structures, the functional roles of genes, and the mechanisms of cardiovascular defects in mutant models during cardiac development. For example, age-dependent cardiac function decline was confirmed with down-regulated angiotensin-converting enzyme-related (ACER) gene in Drosophila with OCT27. Phenotyping of gene related cardiomyopathy was demonstrated in Drosophila using OCT28-33. Research using OCT also revealed the functional role of the human SOX5 gene in the heart of Drosophila34. Compared with OCT, OCM uses an objective with a higher numerical aperture to provide better transverse resolution. In the past, the heart dysfunction caused by silencing an ortholog human circadian gene dCry/dClock has been studied using a custom OCM system15,16, as well as the effect of high-fat-diet on cardiomyopathies in Drosophila to understand obesity induced human cardiac diseases.15
Here, the experimental protocol is summarized for longitudinal study of the cardiac morphological and functional changes in Drosophila at second instar (L2), third instar (L3), pupa day 1 (PD1), pupa day 2 (PD2), pupa day 3 (PD3), pupa day 4 (PD4), pupa day 5 (PD5), and adult (Figure 1) using OCM to facilitate study of human-related congenital cardiac diseases. Cardiac functional parameters, such as HR and CAP were quantitatively analyzed at different developmental stages to reveal the cardiac development features.
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1. Preparation of OCM System for Optical Imaging of Drosophila16
2. Drosophila Culture
3. Performing Optical Imaging with OCM
4. Imaging Analysis16

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The longitudinal cardiac imaging was conducted using the fruit flies with the 24B-GAL4/+ strain at room temperature with OCM. Measurements were performed at L2, L3, and at 8 hr intervals from PD1 to PD4, and adult day 1 (AD1) to track the metamorphosis process (Table 1). Larva, early pupa, late pupa and adult flies were mounted on the glass slides as seen in Figure 1A. The segment features of the heart for larval and adult flies were shown in the schematic representations in Figu...
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The rapid heartbeat of Drosophila, with a maximum HR around 400 bpm at larval and adult stages, requires high imaging speed to resolve the heart diastoles and systoles (no less than 80 frames/sec based on experiences). Due to the small heart chamber size and micron scale heart wall thickness (5 - 10 µm), a high spatial resolution (better than 2 µm) is required for resolving the heart tube structures. In this study, a high resolution and ultrahigh speed OCM system was developed, where a spectrometer wit...
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这项工作得到了利哈伊大学创业基金、NIH(R00EB010071 到 C.Z.、R15EB019704 到 C.Z. 和 A.L.、R03AR063271 到 A.L.、R01AG014713 和 R01MH060009 到 R.E.T.)、NSF(1455613 到 C.Z. 和 A.L.)、治愈阿尔茨海默病基金(到 R.E.T.)和马萨诸塞州总医院(A.L. 研究奖执行委员会)的支持。MC 和 Y.M. 得到了国家重点基础研究计划的支持中国(973 计划),资助号 2014CB340404。
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| 姓名 | 公司 | 目录编号 | 评论 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 定制 OCM 成像系统 | 实验室 | ||
| my Temp Mini 数字培养箱 | Benchmark | H2200-HC | |
| 盖玻片 | AmScope | 200PCS | |
| 棉球 | RITE AID | ||
| 即时果蝇配方 | CAROLINA | 配方 4-24 | |
| 酵母 | ActiveDry | ||
| 显微镜 | SONY | WILD M420 | |
| 刷 | Loew-Cornell | 245B | 用于移动标本 |
| Labview 软件 | National Instruments | ||
| ImageJ | 美国国立卫生 | ||
| Matlab | Mathworks | ||
| 镊子 | Wiha | AA SA | 固定水果飞翼 |
| FlyNap | Carolina Biological Supply Company | 4,224,898 | |
| 苏格兰永久性双面胶带,3 M | 苏格兰 | ||
| 移液器 | Fisherbrand | MU18837 | |
| 有机额外椰子油 | Spring Valley | 13183 | |
| 显微镜载玻片 | CapitolBrand | M3504-E | |
| 果蝇 样品瓶 | SEOH | 8401SS | |
| 全反式视网膜 | Sigma-Aldrich Co. | R2500 |
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