The University of North Carolina at Greensboro 1 article published in JoVE Neuroscience Whole-Brain Single-Cell Imaging and Analysis of Intact Neonatal Mouse Brains Using MRI, Tissue Clearing, and Light-Sheet Microscopy Felix A. Kyere*1,2, Ian Curtin*1,2, Oleh Krupa1,2, Carolyn M. McCormick1,2, Mustafa Dere3, Sarah Khan3,7, Minjeong Kim7, Tzu-Wen Winnie Wang4,5,6, Qiuhong He4,5,6, Guorong Wu3, Yen-Yu Ian Shih4,5,6, Jason L. Stein1,2 1UNC Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 3Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 4Center for Animal Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 5Biomedical Research Imaging Center, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 6Department of Neurology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 7Department of Computer Science, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro This protocol describes methods for conducting magnetic resonance imaging, clearing, and immunolabeling of intact mouse brains using iDISCO+, followed by a detailed description of imaging using light-sheet microscopy, and downstream analyses using NuMorph.
