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Cell Calcium 2020 Mar 01;86:102152. doi: 10.1016/j.ceca.2019.102152.
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Noise analysis of cytosolic calcium image data.

Swaminathan D , Dickinson GD , Demuro A , Parker I .


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Cellular Ca2+ signals are often constrained to cytosolic micro- or nano-domains where stochastic openings of Ca2+ channels cause large fluctuations in local Ca2+ concentration (Ca2+ 'noise'). With the advent of TIRF microscopy to image the fluorescence of Ca2+-sensitive probes from attoliter volumes it has become possible to directly monitor these signals, which closely track the gating of plasmalemmal and ER Ca2+-permeable channels. Nevertheless, it is likely that many physiologically important Ca2+ signals are too small to resolve as discrete events in fluorescence recordings. By analogy with noise analysis of electrophysiological data, we explore here the use of statistical approaches to detect and analyze such Ca2+ noise in images obtained using Ca2+-sensitive indicator dyes. We describe two techniques - power spectrum analysis and spatio-temporal correlation - and demonstrate that both effectively identify discrete, spatially localized calcium release events (Ca2+ puffs). Moreover, we show they are able to detect localized noise fluctuations in a case where discrete events cannot directly be resolved.

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