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Imaging Dendritic Spines of Rat Primary Hippocampal Neurons using Structured Illumination Microscopy
Published on: May 4, 2014
A curvilinear coordinate flatmap for visualizing hippocampal structure and development
Ashwin A Bhandiwad1, Fae N Kronman2, Josephine Liwang2
1Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA.
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The hippocampal formation is a highly curved and topographically complex forebrain structure. This complex geometry presents persistent challenges for analyzing subregional, laminar, and connectivity patterns. Here, we present a computational workflow that generates curvilinear-coordinate flatmaps from Common Coordinate Framework (CCF) registered hippocampal and retrohippocampal regions by solving the Laplacian equation to derive geodesic streamlines. This transformation unfolds the hippocampus into a planar slab, bounded by the meningeal and ventricular surfaces, with the depth defined along the radial axis. We apply this transform to image volumes, single neuron reconstructions, and point data, including spatial transcriptomic and rabies tracing datasets, revealing topographic variations in the dorsoventral and radial axes that are obscured in the CCF coordinate space. As proof of principle, we use flatmaps to show connectivity loss in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease and track postnatal development of microglial distribution in the hippocampus. This work provides an efficient and accessible resource for visualizing hippocampal organization across development and disease, offering new opportunities to interrogate the structure and function of this important brain region.
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