Atmospheric pressure mass spectrometric imaging of live hippocampal tissue slices with subcellular spatial resolution

Jae Young Kim; Eun Seok Seo; Hyunmin Kim; Ji Won Park; Dong Kwon Lim; Dae Won Moon

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02216-6

Atmospheric pressure mass spectrometric imaging of live hippocampal tissue slices with subcellular spatial resolution

Jae Young Kim, Eun Seok Seo, Hyunmin Kim, Ji Won Park, Dong Kwon Lim, Dae Won Moon

KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology

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We report a high spatial resolution mass spectrometry (MS) system that allows us to image live hippocampal tissue slices under open-air atmospheric pressure (AP) and ambient temperature conditions at the subcellular level. The method is based on an efficient desorption process by femtosecond (fs) laser assisted with nanoparticles and a subsequent ionization step by applying nonthermal plasma, termed AP nanoparticle and plasma assisted laser desorption ionization (AP-nanoPALDI) MS method. Combining the AP-nanoPALDI with microscopic sample scanning, MS imaging with spatial resolution of 2.9 μm was obtained. The observed AP-nanoPALDI MS imaging clearly revealed the differences of molecular composition between the apical and basal dendrite regions of a hippocampal tissue. In addition, the AP-nanoPALDI MS imaging showed the decrease of cholesterol in hippocampus by treating with methyl β-cyclodextrin, which exemplifies the potential of AP-nanoPALDI for live tissue imaging for various biomedical applications without any chemical pretreatment and/or labeling process.

Original language	English
Article number	2113
Journal	Nature communications
Volume	8
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02216-6
Publication status	Published - 2017 Dec 1

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