Makoto Matsuyama

This study presents a method for visualizing collagen fibers in rat hearts using tissue clearing and SHG microscopy, enabling comparison of collagen orientation in infarcted vs. healthy tissue.

This study develops an optimized plasmid transfection protocol for human cardiac fibroblasts, achieving high efficiency and minimal toxicity while enabling regulatory sequence analysis of key markers.

This study uses barcoded rabies virus with single-cell and in situ sequencing to map synaptic connectivity in the mouse brain, distinguishing cortical cell types by their connectivity patterns.

The paper shows that a modified rabies virus intended for noncytotoxic neuronal tracing lost its modification due to mutations, leading to paradoxical results, and that the modified virus requires exogenous protease for efficient spread.

This paper introduces third-generation rabies viral vectors with single deletions that enable more efficient, non-toxic retrograde targeting of projection neurons compared to previous generations.

This paper introduces a non-toxic rabies virus system for long-term in vivo imaging of neuronal networks, showing minimal toxicity and normal visual response properties over 10 weeks.