Expansion microscopy of zebrafish for neuroscience and developmental biology studies

L Freifeld, I Odstrcil, D Förster… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Expansion microscopy (ExM) allows scalable imaging of preserved 3D biological specimens
with nanoscale resolution on fast diffraction-limited microscopes. Here, we explore the utility …

Superresolution imaging of Drosophila tissues using expansion microscopy

N Jiang, HJ Kim, TJ Chozinski… - Molecular biology of …, 2018 - Am Soc Cell Biol
The limited resolving power of conventional diffraction-limited microscopy hinders analysis
of small, densely packed structural elements in cells. Expansion microscopy (ExM) provides …

Expansion microscopy: development and neuroscience applications

ED Karagiannis, ES Boyden - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Classical super-resolution methods are difficult to use across neural
circuits.•Expansion microscopy physically magnifies specimens to reveal nanoscale …

[HTML][HTML] Expansion microscopy: a powerful nanoscale imaging tool for neuroscientists

BR Gallagher, Y Zhao - Neurobiology of disease, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the biggest unsolved questions in neuroscience is how molecules and neuronal
circuitry create behaviors, and how their misregulation or dysfunction results in neurological …

Nanoscale resolution imaging of the whole mouse embryos and larval zebrafish using expansion microscopy

J Sim, CE Park, I Cho, K Min, M Eom, S Han, H Jeon… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Nanoscale resolution imaging of whole vertebrates is required for a systematic
understanding of human diseases, but this has yet to be realized. Expansion microscopy …

Expansion microscopy of C. elegans

CC Yu, NC Barry, AT Wassie, A Sinha, A Bhattacharya… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
We recently developed expansion microscopy (ExM), which achieves nanoscale-precise
imaging of specimens at~ 70 nm resolution (with~ 4.5 x linear expansion) by isotropic …

Expansion microscopy: scalable and convenient super-resolution microscopy

PW Tillberg, F Chen - Annual Review of Cell and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Expansion microscopy (ExM) is a physical form of magnification that increases the effective
resolving power of any microscope. Here, we describe the fundamental principles of ExM, as …

Expansion microscopy for beginners: visualizing microtubules in expanded cultured HeLa cells

C Zhang, JS Kang, SM Asano, R Gao… - Current protocols in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Expansion microscopy (ExM) is a technique that physically expands preserved cells and
tissues before microscope imaging, so that conventional diffraction‐limited microscopes can …

TissUExM enables quantitative ultrastructural analysis in whole vertebrate embryos by expansion microscopy

E Steib, R Tetley, RF Laine, DP Norris, Y Mao… - Cell reports …, 2022 - cell.com
Super-resolution microscopy reveals the molecular organization of biological structures
down to the nanoscale. While it allows the study of protein complexes in single cells, small …

iU-ExM: nanoscopy of organelles and tissues with iterative ultrastructure expansion microscopy

V Louvel, R Haase, O Mercey, MH Laporte… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Expansion microscopy (ExM) is a highly effective technique for super-resolution
fluorescence microscopy that enables imaging of biological samples beyond the diffraction …