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Two-Photon Calcium Imaging of Forebrain Activity in Behaving Adult Zebrafish
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Two-Photon Calcium Imaging of Forebrain Activity in Behaving Adult Zebrafish

Two-Photon Calcium Imaging of Forebrain Activity in Behaving Adult Zebrafish

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07:21 min

July 28, 2023

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07:21 min
July 28, 2023

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The fish fore-brain hosts areas suspected to be homologous to mammalian brain regions involved in complex behavior. These include the hippocampus, the cortex, and the amygdala. We are currently trying to understand the effect of sensory information on the activity of these brain regions.

Current research in zebra fish neuroscience uses two photon calcium imaging of immobilized larvae. Combined with virtual reality based behavior essays, to study sensory motor processing in the brain. Most research on the zebra fish brain is done on larvae, however some complex behaviors in fish do not fully develop until adulthood.

Our protocol allows the study of brain activity in the adult during behavior. This protocol reduced surgery times by fifty percent compared to the previous method. It’s a more efficient approach for restraining the head of adult zebra fish for a better image.

This head restraint protocol opened an opportunity to perform an in vivo experiment on the adult zebra fish brain. In addition to the two-photon calcium image, head restraint potentially allows the opto-genetic manipulation, electro-physiology, and even ultra-sound imaging of live fish.

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Here, we present a protocol to perform two-photon calcium imaging in the dorsal forebrain of adult zebrafish.

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