Macroautophagy is the process to remove intracellular organelles or proteins by using autophagosome that is composed of autophagy proteins such as atg3, atg7, and atg8/LC3 (Mizushima, et al. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol. 27:107–132, 2011). Here, we develop a useful method for in vivo imaging of autophagosome under the two-photon microscopy. Time-lapse imaging of LC3-ECFP enables us to quantify the dynamics of number, size, and signal intensity of autophagosomes in neurons or in other types of cells in the brain.
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Chen, X., Kondo, K., & Okazawa, H. (2019). Methods to image macroautophagy in the brain in vivo. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1880, pp. 529–534). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8873-0_33
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