Fear memory-associated synaptic and mitochondrial changes revealed by deep learning-based processing of electron microscopy data
| Autor: | Lijun Shen, Ma Hongtu, Zhenchen Li, Yang Yang, Xi Chen, Jing Liu, Guoqing Li, Junqian Qi, Bei Hong, Danqian Liu, Yu Kong, Qiwei Xie, Hua Han |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Fear memory Polymers and Plastics business.industry Deep learning Biology Auditory cortex Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering law.invention law Postsynaptic potential Ultrastructure Artificial intelligence Fear learning Fear conditioning Business and International Management Electron microscope business Neuroscience |
| DOI: | 10.1101/2021.08.05.455246 |
| Popis: | Serial section electron microscopy (ssEM) can provide comprehensive 3D ultrastructural information of the brain with exceptional computational cost. Targeted reconstruction of subcellular structures from ssEM datasets is less computationally demanding but still highly informative. We thus developed a Region-CNN-based deep learning method to identify, segment, and reconstruct synapses and mitochondria to explore the structural plasticity of synapses and mitochondria in the auditory cortex of mice subjected to fear conditioning. Upon reconstructing over 135,000 mitochondria and 160,000 synapses, we found that fear conditioning significantly increases the number of mitochondria but decreases their size, and promotes the formation of multi-contact synapses comprising a single axonal bouton and multiple postsynaptic sites from different dendrites. Modeling indicates that such multi-contact configuration increases the information storage capacity of new synapses by over 50%. With high accuracy and speed in reconstruction, our method yields structural and functional insight into cellular plasticity associated with fear learning. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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