IIT Madras unveils world's most detailed 3D Atlas of human brainstem

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras IIT Madras said it has released ANCHOR Atlas of Neurochemical Characterisation of the human brainstem with 3D Reconstruction the worldrsquos most detailed threedimensional atlas of the human brainstemANCHOR was developed by the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre through its high throughput brain imaging and computing platform that transforms whole human brains into 3D cellresolution atlases the statement from IIT Madras saidANCHOR comprises the most comprehensive multimodal 3D maps and atlases of the human brainstem to date spanning from prenatal period to childhood and adult brainsThe researchers have made ANCHOR publicly available through a website to ensure that this cuttingedge research benefits researchers clinicians and patients around the worldThe statement noted that the publicly available atlas encompasses over 200 brainstem nuclei and fibre tracts reconstructed from hundreds of serial sections using eight complementary immunostains overlaid across more than 500 sections enabling detailed mappingANCHOR was released at the 3rd BRICS Neuroscience Symposium held from June 57 at the IIT Madras campusSGBC aims to build the most comprehensive set of cell resolution human brain maps across life span and diseasesThe centre aims to image over 100 whole brains across human lifespan and neurological diseasesThe centre has become a truly global interdisciplinary team featuring over 200 researchers engineers and technicians working with 20 collaborators from different countries the statement addedldquoThis is a significant accomplishment in the field of neurobiology This is a multimodal framework integrating MRI histology and detailed chemoarchitecturerdquo said Prof Ajay Kumar Sood Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of IndiaThese maps will help in identifying specific cell populations affected in brain stem lesions which could be critical for clinical applications he addedThe centre is a unique example of how risk taking by a public agency led to an advanced technology platform for doing big science and that was then scaled by private and philanthropic support to produce worldclass results in frontier areas of human brain sciencesrdquo Sood notedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever