Publications by authors named "J Douglas Waterfield"

Article Synopsis
  • Tissue clearing is a science method that has been around for over 100 years, but it’s still changing and improving.
  • Choosing the right tissue clearing method can be hard because there are many different protocols, each with pros and cons depending on the situation.
  • To help scientists, a new online resource called T-CLEARE (Tissue CLEAring protocol REpository) has been created to share details and experiences about various tissue clearing methods and their results.
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Selecting and implementing a tissue-clearing protocol is challenging. Established more than 100 years ago, tissue clearing is still a rapidly evolving field of research. There are currently many published protocols to choose from, and each performs better or worse across a range of key evaluation factors (e.

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The survival of infantile-onset Pompe disease (IOPD) patients has improved dramatically since the introduction of enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) with a1glucosidase alfa. However, long-term IOPD survivors on ERT demonstrate motor deficits indicating that current therapy cannot completely prevent disease progression in skeletal muscle. We hypothesized that in IOPD, skeletal muscle endomysial stroma and capillaries would show consistent changes that could impede the movement of infused ERT from blood to muscle fibers.

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Recent advances in fluorescence microscopy techniques and tissue clearing, labeling, and staining provide unprecedented opportunities to investigate brain structure and function. These experiments' images make it possible to catalog brain cell types and define their location, morphology, and connectivity in a native context, leading to a better understanding of normal development and disease etiology. Consistent annotation of metadata is needed to provide the context necessary to understand, reuse, and integrate these data.

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Objectives: To identify unanswered questions for physiotherapy research and help set and prioritise the top 10 generic research priorities for the UK physiotherapy profession; updating previous clinical condition- specific priorities to include patient and carer perspectives, and reflect changes in physiotherapy practice, service provision and new technologies.

Design: The James Lind Alliance (JLA) Priority Setting Partnership (PSP) methodology was adopted, utilising evidence review, survey and consensus methods.

Participants: Anyone with experience and/or an interest in UK physiotherapy: patients, carers, members of the public, physiotherapists, student physiotherapists, other healthcare professionals, researchers, educators, service providers, commissioners and policy makers.

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