Meso2EM is a correlative light and electron microscopy workflow that transfers neurons selected from mesoscale functional images to targeted electron microscopy. We recorded Ca{superscript 2} signals from layer 2/3 neurons across a contiguous 3 x 3 mm cortical field in awake mice and reidentified a selected neuron after fixation and tangential sectioning. Lectin-labeled vascular architecture served as a shared landmark across in vivo two-photon imaging, confocal microscopy, laboratory micro-CT of resin-embedded tissue, and block-surface scanning electron microscopy, guiding focused-ion-beam scanning electron microscopy to the target cell body. The same progressive-targeting principle also supported serial ATUM-SEM reconstruction of an in vivo-tracked dendrite and serial transmission electron microscopy of optically selected dendrites from a patch-clamp-recorded Martinotti cell. Meso2EM therefore provides a practical route for preserving target identity across large changes in scale and specimen state while restricting electron-microscopy acquisition to a selected region.
Oomoto, I., Murate, M., Sohn, J., Tamura, M., Hatada, S., Egawa, N., Odagawa, M., Suga, M., Kawaguchi, Y., Murayama, M., Kubota, Y.
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