2024-03-29T06:07:53Zhttp://repisalud.isciii.es/oai/requestoai:repisalud.isciii.es:20.500.12105/148142022-11-14T12:17:41Zcom_20.500.12105_2109com_20.500.12105_2052com_20.500.12105_2051col_20.500.12105_2110
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Anzibar Fialho, Maximiliano
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Vázquez Alberdi, Lucia
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Martínez, Mariana
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Calero, Miguel
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Baranger, Jerome
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Tanter, Mickael
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Damián, Juan Pablo
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Negreira, Carlos
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Rubido, Nicolás
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Kun, Alejandra
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Brum, Javier
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2022
The hippocampus plays an important role in learning and memory, requiring high-neuronal oxygenation. Understanding the relationship between blood flow and vascular structure-and how it changes with ageing-is physiologically and anatomically relevant. Ultrafast Doppler ([Formula: see text]Doppler) and scanning laser confocal microscopy (SLCM) are powerful imaging modalities that can measure in vivo cerebral blood volume (CBV) and post mortem vascular structure, respectively. Here, we apply both imaging modalities to a cross-sectional and longitudinal study of hippocampi vasculature in wild-type mice brains. We introduce a segmentation of CBV distribution obtained from [Formula: see text]Doppler and show that this mice-independent and mesoscopic measurement is correlated with vessel volume fraction (VVF) distribution obtained from SLCM-e.g., high CBV relates to specific vessel locations with large VVF. Moreover, we find significant changes in CBV distribution and vasculature due to ageing (5 vs. 21 month-old mice), highlighting the sensitivity of our approach. Overall, we are able to associate CBV with vascular structure-and track its longitudinal changes-at the artery-vein, venules, arteriole, and capillary levels. We believe that this combined approach can be a powerful tool for studying other acute (e.g., brain injuries), progressive (e.g., neurodegeneration) or induced pathological changes.
Sci Rep. 2022 Apr 26;12(1):6784.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/14814
35473942
10.1038/s41598-022-10457-9
2045-2322
Scientific Reports
Ageing
Confocal microscopy
Imaging techniques
Neural ageing
Ultrasound
Intensity distribution segmentation in ultrafast Doppler combined with scanning laser confocal microscopy for assessing vascular changes associated with ageing in murine hippocampi