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A tissue-like neurotransmitter sensor for the brain and gut

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  • Jinxing Li

    (Stanford University
    Michigan State University)

  • Yuxin Liu

    (Stanford University)

  • Lei Yuan

    (Stanford University)

  • Baibing Zhang

    (Stanford University)

  • Estelle Spear Bishop

    (Stanford University School of Medicine)

  • Kecheng Wang

    (Stanford University)

  • Jing Tang

    (Stanford University)

  • Yu-Qing Zheng

    (Stanford University)

  • Wenhui Xu

    (Stanford University)

  • Simiao Niu

    (Stanford University)

  • Levent Beker

    (Stanford University)

  • Thomas L. Li

    (Stanford University
    Stanford University)

  • Gan Chen

    (Stanford University)

  • Modupeola Diyaolu

    (Stanford University)

  • Anne-Laure Thomas

    (Stanford University)

  • Vittorio Mottini

    (Stanford University
    Michigan State University)

  • Jeffrey B.-H. Tok

    (Stanford University)

  • James C. Y. Dunn

    (Stanford University
    Stanford University)

  • Bianxiao Cui

    (Stanford University)

  • Sergiu P. Pașca

    (Stanford University
    Stanford University)

  • Yi Cui

    (Stanford University)

  • Aida Habtezion

    (Stanford University School of Medicine)

  • Xiaoke Chen

    (Stanford University)

  • Zhenan Bao

    (Stanford University)

Abstract

Neurotransmitters play essential roles in regulating neural circuit dynamics both in the central nervous system as well as at the peripheral, including the gastrointestinal tract1–3. Their real-time monitoring will offer critical information for understanding neural function and diagnosing disease1–3. However, bioelectronic tools to monitor the dynamics of neurotransmitters in vivo, especially in the enteric nervous systems, are underdeveloped. This is mainly owing to the limited availability of biosensing tools that are capable of examining soft, complex and actively moving organs. Here we introduce a tissue-mimicking, stretchable, neurochemical biological interface termed NeuroString, which is prepared by laser patterning of a metal-complexed polyimide into an interconnected graphene/nanoparticle network embedded in an elastomer. NeuroString sensors allow chronic in vivo real-time, multichannel and multiplexed monoamine sensing in the brain of behaving mouse, as well as measuring serotonin dynamics in the gut without undesired stimulations and perturbing peristaltic movements. The described elastic and conformable biosensing interface has broad potential for studying the impact of neurotransmitters on gut microbes, brain–gut communication and may ultimately be extended to biomolecular sensing in other soft organs across the body.

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  • Jinxing Li & Yuxin Liu & Lei Yuan & Baibing Zhang & Estelle Spear Bishop & Kecheng Wang & Jing Tang & Yu-Qing Zheng & Wenhui Xu & Simiao Niu & Levent Beker & Thomas L. Li & Gan Chen & Modupeola Diyaol, 2022. "A tissue-like neurotransmitter sensor for the brain and gut," Nature, Nature, vol. 606(7912), pages 94-101, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:606:y:2022:i:7912:d:10.1038_s41586-022-04615-2
    DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04615-2
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