Protocol for in vivoimaging and analysis of brainstem neuronal activity in the dorsal raphe nucleus of freely behaving mice

Autor: Paquelet, Grace E., Carrion, Kassandra, Lacefield, Clay O., Zhou, Pengcheng, Hen, Rene, Miller, Bradley R.
Zdroj: STAR Protocols; March 2023, Vol. 4 Issue: 1
Abstrakt: In vivobrainstem imaging with miniature microscopy has been challenging due to surgical difficulty, high motion, and correlated activity between neurons. Here, we present a protocol for brainstem imaging in freely moving mice using the dorsal raphe nucleus as an example. We describe surgical procedures to inject a virus encoding GCaMP6m and securely implant a GRIN lens in the brainstem. We then detail motion correction and cell segmentation from the data to parse single-cell activity from correlated networks.
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