Brillouin spectroscopy reveals changes in muscular viscoelasticity in Drosophila POMT mutants

Zhaokai Meng; Ryan Baker; Vladislav M. Panin; Vladislav V. Yakovlev

doi:10.1117/12.2079681

6 March 2015 Brillouin spectroscopy reveals changes in muscular viscoelasticity in Drosophila POMT mutants

Zhaokai Meng, Ryan Baker, Vladislav M. Panin, Vladislav V. Yakovlev

Proceedings Volume 9327, Optical Elastography and Tissue Biomechanics II; 932713 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2079681
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2015, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a group of muscle diseases that induce weakness in skeletal muscle and cause progressive muscle degeneration. The muscular mechanical properties (i.e., viscoelasticity), however, have not been thoroughly examined before and after MD. On the other hand, Brillouin spectroscopy (BS) provides a non-invasive approach to probing the local sound speed within a small volume. Moreover, recent advances in background-free Brillouin spectroscopy enable investigators to imaging not only transparent samples, but also turbid ones. In this study, we investigated the mechanical properties of muscles while employing Drosophila model of dystroglycanopathies, human congenital muscular dystrophies resulting from abnormal glycosylation of alphadystroglycan. Specifically, we analyzed larval abdominal muscles of Drosophila with mutations in protein Omannosyltransferase (POMT) genes. As a comparison, we have also examined muscular tissues dissected from wildtype Drosophila. The Brillouin spectra were obtained by a background free VIPA (virtually imaged phased array) spectrometer described in the previous report. As a reference, the Raman spectra were also acquired for each test. Our current results indicated that POMT defects cause changes in muscle elasticity, which suggests that muscular dystrophy conditions may be also associated with abnormalities in muscle elastic properties.

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Zhaokai Meng, Ryan Baker, Vladislav M. Panin, and Vladislav V. Yakovlev "Brillouin spectroscopy reveals changes in muscular viscoelasticity in Drosophila POMT mutants", Proc. SPIE 9327, Optical Elastography and Tissue Biomechanics II, 932713 (6 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2079681

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