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Non-linear optical imaging and atomic force measurements to monitor spinal cord injury in mice and non-human primates

Béla Varga
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Yannick Gerber
Thierry Cloitre
Marta Martin Fernandez
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Csilla Gergely
Florence Perrin

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Aim: Our main objective is to implement a multimodal (bio)physical approach to decipher mechanisms that underlie absence of spontaneous axonal regeneration following spinal cord injury (SCI) in mice and nonhuman primates. Method: A multimodal imaging strategy is employed combining state-of-the-art non-linear microscopy techniques (multiphoton - MPM and BCARS microscopy) with force spectroscopy measurements via atomic force microscopy (AFM). This approach enables to assess the relevant structural, morphological and spectral signature as well as the nanobiomechanical behavior of healthy and injured spinal cord tissue at cellular level. Results: We have first imaged excised mice SC tissues in 2-photon excited fluorescence and second harmonic generation (SHG). These MPM studies revealed the apparition of a strong SHG signal due to the formation of collagen I fibers by the injury site in the glial scar. AFM based force spectroscopy measurements have been also performed to map the elastic properties of the healthy and injured spinal cord tissue. Therefore, MPM data could be correlated with Young modulus elasticity results, indicating the presence of a fibrotic process 7 days after injury. As tissue stiffness is a regulator of neuronal growth, such kind of measurements will enable to understand why adult mammalian axons do not regenerate spontaneously after injury. Our next step will be to use a novel, emerging imaging technology that is the broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (BCARS) microscopy for fast, label-free, highly selective and specific screening of spinal cord injury and potentially of drugs uptake into excised tissues. Combination of BCARS and MPM will first enable to retrieve information on the biological state of the cells/tissues that may underly the absence of spontaneous axonal regeneration following SCI (Raman neuronal markers: myelin, acetylcholine neurotransmitter, glutamate; MPM markers: collagen, neural axons, mitochondria,…). Second, it will permit to further correlate modification of these structural, morphological and spectral signatures in the context of therapeutic strategies.
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hal-03463478 , version 1 (02-12-2021)

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Clara Manesco, Béla Varga, Yannick Gerber, Thierry Cloitre, Marta Martin Fernandez, et al.. Non-linear optical imaging and atomic force measurements to monitor spinal cord injury in mice and non-human primates. COST, Mar 2021, Web-Conférence : University of Utrecht, The Netherlands and University of Gothenburg, Sweden, France. ⟨hal-03463478⟩
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