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ProfessorPaulFrench

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Professor of Physics
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 7706paul.french Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Ms Judith Baylis +44 (0)20 7594 7713

 
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Location

 

609Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Chen:2017:10.1038/s41598-017-12484-3,
author = {Chen, L and Li, G and Li, Y and Li, Y and Zhu, H and Tang, L and French, P and McGinty, J and Ruan, S},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-017-12484-3},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
title = {UbasM: An effective balanced optical clearing method for intact biomedical imaging},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12484-3},
volume = {7},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Optical clearing methods can facilitate deep optical imaging in biological tissue by reducing light scattering and this has enabled accurate three-dimensional signal visualization and quantification of complex biological structures. Unfortunately, existing optical clearing approaches present a compromise between maximizing clearing capability, the preservation of fluorescent protein emission and membrane integrity and the speed of sample processing – with the latter typically requiring weeks for cm scale tissue samples. To address this challenge, we present a new, convenient, aqueous optical clearing agent, termed UbasM: Urea-Based Amino-Sugar Mixture, that rapidly renders fixed tissue samples highly transparent and reliably preserves emission from fluorescent proteins and lipophilic dyes in membrane integrity preserved tissues. UbasM is simple, inexpensive, reproducible and compatible with all labeling methods that we have encountered. It can enable convenient, volumetric imaging of tissue up to the scale of whole adult mouse organs and should be useful for a wide range of light microscopy and tomography techniques applied to biomedical research, especially the study on organism-level systems biology at multiple levels.
AU  - Chen,L
AU  - Li,G
AU  - Li,Y
AU  - Li,Y
AU  - Zhu,H
AU  - Tang,L
AU  - French,P
AU  - McGinty,J
AU  - Ruan,S
DO  - 10.1038/s41598-017-12484-3
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 2045-2322
TI  - UbasM: An effective balanced optical clearing method for intact biomedical imaging
T2  - Scientific Reports
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12484-3
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000411434900084&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/69705
VL  - 7
ER  -
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