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Biomass measurements of single neurites in vitro using optical wavefront microscopy

Ljiljana Durdevic
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Aroa Relaño Ginés
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Antoine Roueff
Guillaume Blivet
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Guillaume Baffou

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Quantitative phase microscopies (QPMs) enable label-free, non-invasive observation of living cells in culture, for arbitrarily long periods of time. One of the main benefits of QPMs compared with fluorescence microscopy is the possibility to measure the dry mass of individual cells or organelles. While QPM dry mass measurements on neural cells have been reported this last decade, dry mass measurements on their neurites has been very little addressed. Because neurites are tenuous objects, they are difficult to precisely characterize and segment using most QPMs. In this article, we use cross-grating wavefront microscopy (CGM), a high-resolution wavefront imaging technique, to measure the dry mass of individual neurites of primary neurons in vitro. CGM is based on the simple association of a cross-grating positioned in front of a camera, and can detect wavefront distortions smaller than a hydrogen atom (∼0.1 nm). In this article, an algorithm for dry-mass measurement of neurites from CGM images is detailed and provided. With objects as small as neurites, we highlight the importance of dealing with the diffraction rings for proper image segmentation and accurate biomass measurements. The high precision of the measurements we obtain using CGM and this semi-manual algorithm enabled us to detect periodic oscillations of neurites never observed before, demonstrating the sufficient degree of accuracy of CGM to capture the cell dynamics at the single neurite level, with a typical precision of 2%, i.e., 0.08 pg in most cases, down to a few fg for the smallest objects.
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hal-03861536 , version 1 (20-11-2022)

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Ljiljana Durdevic, Aroa Relaño Ginés, Antoine Roueff, Guillaume Blivet, Guillaume Baffou. Biomass measurements of single neurites in vitro using optical wavefront microscopy. Biomedical optics express, 2022, 13 (12), pp.6550-6560. ⟨10.1364/boe.471284⟩. ⟨hal-03861536⟩
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