Free-of-Acrylamide SDS-based Tissue Clearing (FASTClear) for three dimensional visualization of myocardial tissue.

ABSTRACT: Several pathologic conditions of the heart lead to cardiac structural remodelling. Given the high density and the opaque nature of the myocardium, deep three dimensional (3D) imaging is difficult to achieve and structural analysis of pathological myocardial structure is often limited to two dimensional images and of thin myocardial sections. Efficient methods to obtain optical clearing of the tissue for 3D visualisation are therefore needed. Here we describe a rapid, simple and versatile Free-of-Acrylamide SDS-based Tissue Clearing (FASTClear) protocol specifically designed for cardiac tissue. With this method 3D information regarding collagen content, collagen localization and distribution could be easily obtained across a whole 300 µm-thick myocardial slice. FASTClear does not induce str

SUBMITTER: Perbellini F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5507863 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature