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

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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
State	Published - 1 Dec 2017

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