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Serial section electron microscopy (ssEM) can provide comprehensive 3D ultrastructural information of the brain with exceptional computational cost. Targeted reconstruction of subcellular structures from ssEM da-tasets is less computationally demanding but still highly informative. We thus developed a region-CNN -based deep learning method to identify, segment, and reconstruct synapses and mitochondria to explore the structural plasticity of synapses and mitochondria in the auditory cortex of mice subjected to fear con-ditioning. Upon reconstructing over 135,000 mitochondria and 160,000 synapses, we find that fear condition-ing significantly increases the number of mitochondria but decreases their size and promotes formation of multi-contact synapses, comprising a single axonal bouton and multiple postsynaptic sites from different dendrites. Modeling indicates that such multi-contact configuration increases the information storage ca-pacity of new synapses by over 50%. With high accuracy and speed in reconstruction, our method yields structural and functional insight into cellular plasticity associated with fear learning.
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CELL REPORTS
ISSN: 2211-1247
Year: 2022
Issue: 5
Volume: 40
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JCR@2022
8 . 8 0 0
JCR@2022
ESI Discipline: MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & GENETICS;
ESI HC Threshold:72
JCR Journal Grade:1
CAS Journal Grade:2
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