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Skeletal Muscle NAD(P)H Two-Photon Fluorescence Microscopy In Vivo: Topology and Optical Inner Filters

Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Human Health Services, Bethesda, Maryland

Correspondence: Address reprint requests to Dr. Emily C. Rothstein, LCE, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 10, Rm. B1D416, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892. E-mail: emilyr{at}nih.gov.

Two-photon excitation fluorescence microscopy (TPEFM) permits the investigation of the topology of intercellular events within living animals. TPEFM was used to monitor the distribution of mitochondrial reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD(P)H) in murine skeletal muscle in vivo. NAD(P)H fluorescence emission was monitored (460 nm) using 710–720 nm excitation. High-resolution TPEFM images were collected up to a depth of 150 µm from the surface of the tibialis anterior muscle. The NAD(P)H fluorescence images revealed subcellular structures consistent with subsarcolemmal, perivascular, intersarcomeric, and paranuclear mitochondria. In vivo fiber typing between IIB and IIA/D fibers was possible using the distribution and content of mitochondria from the NAD(P)H fluorescence signal. The intersarcomeric mitochondria concentrated at the Z-line in the IIB fiber types resulting in a periodic pattern with a spacing of one sarcomere (2.34 ± 0.17 µm). The primary inner filter effects were nearly equivalent to water, however, the secondary inner filter effects were highly significant and dynamically affected the observed emission frequency and amplitude of the NAD(P)H fluorescence signal. These data demonstrate the feasibility, and highlight the complexity, of using NAD(P)H TPEFM in skeletal muscle to characterize the topology and metabolic function of mitochondria within the living mouse.

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