Apoptosis is very important for the maintenance of cellular homeostasis and is closely related to the occurrence and treatment of many diseases.Mitochondria in cells play a crucial role in programmed cell death and re...Apoptosis is very important for the maintenance of cellular homeostasis and is closely related to the occurrence and treatment of many diseases.Mitochondria in cells play a crucial role in programmed cell death and redox processes.Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide(NAD(P)H)is the primary producer of energy in mitochondria,changing NAD(P)H can directly reflect the physiological state of mitochondria.Therefore,NAD(P)H can be used to evaluate metabolic response.In this paper,we propose a noninvasive detection method that uses two-photon fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy(TP-FLIM)to characterize apoptosis by observing the binding kinetics of cellular endogenous NAD(P)H.The result shows that the average fluorescence lifetime of NAD(P)H and the fluorescence lifetime of protein-bound NAD(P)H will be affected by the changing pH,serum content,and oxygen concentration in the cell culture environment,and by the treatment with reagents such as H2O2 and paclitaxel.Taxol(PTX).This noninvasive detection method realized the dynamic detection of cellular endogenous substances and the assessment of apoptosis.展开更多
Fluorescence lifetime imaging can reveal the high-resolution structure of various biophysical and chemical parameters in a microenvironment quantitatively.However,the depth of imaging is generally limited to hundreds ...Fluorescence lifetime imaging can reveal the high-resolution structure of various biophysical and chemical parameters in a microenvironment quantitatively.However,the depth of imaging is generally limited to hundreds of micrometers due to aberration and light scattering in biological tissues.This paper introduces an iterative multi-photon adaptive compensation technique(IMPACT)into a two-photon fluorescence lifetime microscopy system to successfully overcome aberrations and multiple scattering problems in deep tissues.It shows that 400 correction modes can be achieved within 5 min,which was mainly limited by the frame rate of a spatial light modulator.This system was used for high-resolution imaging of mice brain tissue and live zebrafish,further verifying its superior performance in imaging quality and photon accumulation speed.展开更多
基金supported in part by the National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFA0700402)National Natural Science Foundation of China(61961136005/61935012/62175163/61835009)+1 种基金Shenzhen Key projects(JCYJ20200109105404067)Shenzhen International Cooperation Project(GJHZ 20190822095420249).
文摘Apoptosis is very important for the maintenance of cellular homeostasis and is closely related to the occurrence and treatment of many diseases.Mitochondria in cells play a crucial role in programmed cell death and redox processes.Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide(NAD(P)H)is the primary producer of energy in mitochondria,changing NAD(P)H can directly reflect the physiological state of mitochondria.Therefore,NAD(P)H can be used to evaluate metabolic response.In this paper,we propose a noninvasive detection method that uses two-photon fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy(TP-FLIM)to characterize apoptosis by observing the binding kinetics of cellular endogenous NAD(P)H.The result shows that the average fluorescence lifetime of NAD(P)H and the fluorescence lifetime of protein-bound NAD(P)H will be affected by the changing pH,serum content,and oxygen concentration in the cell culture environment,and by the treatment with reagents such as H2O2 and paclitaxel.Taxol(PTX).This noninvasive detection method realized the dynamic detection of cellular endogenous substances and the assessment of apoptosis.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2021YFF0502900)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.62175163,62225505,61935012,61835009,62127819,and 62205220)+2 种基金the Shenzhen Key Projects(No.JCYJ20200109105404067)the Shenzhen Talent Innovation Project(No.RCJC20210706091949022)the Shenzhen Science and Technology Planning Project(No.ZDSYS20210623092006020)。
文摘Fluorescence lifetime imaging can reveal the high-resolution structure of various biophysical and chemical parameters in a microenvironment quantitatively.However,the depth of imaging is generally limited to hundreds of micrometers due to aberration and light scattering in biological tissues.This paper introduces an iterative multi-photon adaptive compensation technique(IMPACT)into a two-photon fluorescence lifetime microscopy system to successfully overcome aberrations and multiple scattering problems in deep tissues.It shows that 400 correction modes can be achieved within 5 min,which was mainly limited by the frame rate of a spatial light modulator.This system was used for high-resolution imaging of mice brain tissue and live zebrafish,further verifying its superior performance in imaging quality and photon accumulation speed.
