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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Synchrotron Radiation Année : 2020

X-ray phase contrast tomography for the investigation of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Giuseppe Gigli
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Francesco Gentile

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder affecting motor neurons. Pre-clinical studies drive the development of animal models that well mimic ALS disorder and enable both the dissection of disease processes and an early assessment of therapy efficacy. A comprehensive knowledge of neuronal and vascular lesions in the brain and spinal cord is an essential factor to understand the development of the disease. Spatial resolution and bidimensional imaging are important drawbacks limiting current neuroimaging tools, while neuropathology relies on protocols that may alter tissue chemistry and structure. In contrast, recent exvivo studies in mice demonstrated that X-ray phase-contrast tomography enables study of the 3D distribution of both vasculature and neuronal networks, without sample sectioning or use of staining. Here we present our findings on exvivo SOD1(G93A) ALS mice spinal cord at a micrometric scale. An unprecedented direct quantification of neuro-vascular alterations at different stages of the disease is shown.

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hal-02940443 , version 1 (15-07-2022)

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Ginevra Begani Provinciali, Nicola Pieroni, Inna Bukreeva, Michela Fratini, Lorenzo Massimi, et al.. X-ray phase contrast tomography for the investigation of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 2020, 27 (4), pp.1042-1048. ⟨10.1107/S1600577520006785⟩. ⟨hal-02940443⟩
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