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Phenotyping Intact Mouse Bones Using Bone CLARITY.

Jennifer B Treweek1, Aidan Beres2, Nathan Johnson2

  • 1Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|November 16, 2020
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A new bone-clearing method, Bone CLARITY, makes intact bone tissue transparent for detailed 3D visualization. This technique overcomes limitations of traditional histology, preserving the native bone environment.

Area of Science:

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Histology
  • Tissue Clearing

Background:

  • Traditional bone histology uses laborious and destructive serial sectioning and staining.
  • These methods compromise the native 3D structure and cellular environment of bone tissue.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce Bone CLARITY, an advanced bone-clearing methodology.
  • To enable detailed visualization of intact bone specimens in their native 3D state.

Main Methods:

  • Bone CLARITY integrates established soft tissue clearing techniques: delipidation, hydrogel-embedding, and heme elution.
  • Specialized steps include decalcification and progressive refractive index matching for osseous tissue challenges.

Main Results:

Keywords:
Bone CLARITYFluorescence microscopyLight-sheet microscopyThree-dimensional imagingTissue Clearing

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  • The Bone CLARITY method renders bone tissue transparent.
  • Enables multi-scale visualization of intact bone specimens, preserving fragile epitopes and reducing autofluorescence.

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    • Bone CLARITY offers a non-destructive alternative to traditional bone histology.
    • This technique facilitates comprehensive 3D structural analysis of bone tissue.