Kugler, Elisabeth C;
Frost, James;
Silva, Vishmi;
Plant, Karen;
Chhabria, Karishma;
Chico, Tim JA;
Armitage, Paul A;
(2022)
Zebrafish vascular quantification: a tool for quantification of three-dimensional zebrafish cerebrovascular architecture by automated image analysis.
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Abstract
Zebrafish transgenic lines and light sheet fluorescence microscopy allow in-depth insights into three-dimensional vascular development in vivo. However, quantification of the zebrafish cerebral vasculature in 3D remains highly challenging. Here, we describe and test an image analysis workflow for 3D quantification of the total or regional zebrafish brain vasculature, called zebrafish vasculature quantification (ZVQ). It provides the first landmark- or object-based vascular inter-sample registration of the zebrafish cerebral vasculature, producing population average maps allowing rapid assessment of intra- and inter-group vascular anatomy. ZVQ also extracts a range of quantitative vascular parameters from a user-specified region of interest, including volume, surface area, density, branching points, length, radius and complexity. Application of ZVQ to 13 experimental conditions, including embryonic development, pharmacological manipulations and morpholino-induced gene knockdown, shows that ZVQ is robust, allows extraction of biologically relevant information and quantification of vascular alteration, and can provide novel insights into vascular biology. To allow dissemination, the code for quantification, a graphical user interface and workflow documentation are provided. Together, ZVQ provides the first open-source quantitative approach to assess the 3D cerebrovascular architecture in zebrafish.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Zebrafish vascular quantification: a tool for quantification of three-dimensional zebrafish cerebrovascular architecture by automated image analysis |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1242/dev.199720 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.199720 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed. |
| Keywords: | Angiogenesis, LSFM, Quantification, Registration, Vasculature |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Institute of Ophthalmology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10144130 |
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