3DISCO (stands for “3D imaging of solvent-cleared organs“)[1] is a histological method that make biological samples more transparent (so called “cleared”) by using series of organic solvents for matching the refractive index (RI) of the tissues with that of the surrounding medium. Structures in transparent tissues can be examined by fluorescence microscopy, without the need for time-consuming physical sectioning and subsequent reconstruction in silico.
The method was developed by the team of Ali Ertürk and Hans-Ulrich Dodt at the Max-Planck-Institute in Munich,[1][2] and it was aimed primarily at clearing and imaging unsectioned mouse brain and spinal cord samples. Later on, the original method or modified versions of it were successfully used in many fields of biological research to image and investigate whole body of mice,[3] structure and function within the mouse brain,[1] stem cells,[4][5] tumor tissues,[6][7][8] developmental processes,[9][10] or whole human embryos.[11]
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^Ertürk, Ali; Mauch, Christoph P.; Hellal, Farida; Förstner, Friedrich; Keck, Tara; Becker, Klaus; Jährling, Nina; Steffens, Heinz; Richter, Melanie (2011-12-25). "Three-dimensional imaging of the unsectioned adult spinal cord to assess axon regeneration and glial responses after injury". Nature Medicine. 18 (1): 166–171. doi:10.1038/nm.2600. ISSN 1546-170X. PMID 22198277. S2CID 16100638. Archived from the original on 2020-09-15. Retrieved 2019-12-05.
^Pan, Chenchen; Cai, Ruiyao; Quacquarelli, Francesca Paola; Ghasemigharagoz, Alireza; Lourbopoulos, Athanasios; Matryba, Paweł; Plesnila, Nikolaus; Dichgans, Martin; Hellal, Farida (October 2016). "Shrinkage-mediated imaging of entire organs and organisms using uDISCO". Nature Methods. 13 (10): 859–867. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3964. ISSN 1548-7105. PMID 27548807. S2CID 3521504. Archived from the original on 2020-09-15. Retrieved 2019-12-05.
3DISCO (stands for “3D imaging of solvent-cleared organs“) is a histological method that make biological samples more transparent (so called “cleared”)...
The following year, Ertürk et al. developed a hydrophobic approach called 3DISCO, in which they pretreated tissue with tetrahydrofuran and dichloromethane...
Special tissue clearing techniques have been developed for this purpose, e.g. 3DISCO, CUBIC and CLARITY. Depending on the index of refraction of the cleared...
found in gels used for western blots. Brainbow Diffusion Tensor Imaging 3DISCO Chung K, Wallace J, Kim SY, Kalyanasundaram S, Andalman AS, Davidson TJ...
their high viscosity. Also, in comparison with solvent based methods like 3DISCO the CUBIC as method based on simple diffusion is still take slightly longer...