Cell-accurate optical mapping across the entire developing heart
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Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Organogenesis depends on orchestrated interactions between individual cells and morphogenetically relevant cues at the tissue level. This is true for the heart, whose function critically relies on well-ordered communication between neighboring cells, which is established and fine-tuned during embryonic development. For an integrated understanding of the development of structure and function, we need to move from isolated snap-shot observations of either microscopic or macroscopic parameters to simultaneous and, ideally continuous, cell-to-organ scale imaging. We introduce cell-accurate three-dimensional Ca²⁺-mapping of all cells in the entire electro-mechanically uncoupled heart during the looping stage of live embryonic zebrafish, using high-speed light sheet microscopy and tailored image processing and analysis. We show how myocardial region-specific heterogeneity in cell function emerges during early development and how structural patterning goes hand-in-hand with functional maturation of the entire heart. Our method opens the way to systematic, scale-bridging, in vivo studies of vertebrate organogenesis by cell-accurate structure-function mapping across entire organs.
Date Issued
2017-12-29
Date Acceptance
2017-12-02
Citation
eLife, 2017, 6
ISSN
2050-084X
Publisher
eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
Journal / Book Title
eLife
Volume
6
Copyright Statement
© 2017, Weber et al. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
British Heart Foundation
Identifier
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Grant Number
323099
FS/15/3/31047
Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Biology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics
CARDIAC CONDUCTION SYSTEM
LIGHT-SHEET MICROSCOPY
ZEBRAFISH HEART
MORPHOGENESIS
IDENTITY
MUTANT
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN e28307