Larina Lab Publications

2023

Kohei Umezu and Irina V. Larina. "Optical coherence tomography for dynamic investigation of mammalian reproductive processes." Molecular Reproduction and Development (2023) 90(1): 3-13.

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Andre C. Faubert, Irina V. Larina, and Shang Wang and "Open-source, highly efficient, post-acquisition synchronization for 4D dual-contrast imaging of the mouse embryonic heart over development with optical coherence tomography.” Biomedical Optics Express (2023), 14(1): 163-181.

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Shang Wang and Irina V. Larina. "Dynamics of gametes and embryos in the oviduct: what can in vivo imaging reveal?", Reproduction (2023), 165(2), R25-R37.
 

2022

Deirdre M. Scully and Irina V. Larina. “Mouse embryo phenotyping with optical coherence tomography” Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology (2022), doi: /10.3389/fcell.2022.1000237

Kohei Umezu, Tian Xia, Irina V Larina, Dynamic volumetric imaging and cilia beat mapping in the mouse male reproductive tract with optical coherence tomography. Biomedical Optics Express 13 (6), 3672-3684, 2022.

Kaori Nozawa, Yoshitaka Fujihara, Darius J Devlin, Ricardo E Deras, Katarzyna Kent, Irina V Larina, Kohei Umezu, Zhifeng Yu, Courtney M Sutton, Qiuji Ye, Laura K Dean, Chihiro Emori, Masahito Ikawa, Thomas X Garcia, Martin M Matzuk. The testis-specific E3 ubiquitin ligase RNF133 is required for fecundity in mice. BMC Biology. Jul 13;20(1):161, 2022. doi: 10.1186/s12915-022-01368-2.

Shang Wang and Irina V. Larina. Following the Beat: Imaging the Valveless Pumping Function in the Early Embryonic Heart. Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease, 9, 267, 2022.

San-Pin Wu, Tianyuan Wang, Zheng-Chen Yao, Mary C. Peavey, Xilong Li, Lecong Zhou, Irina V. Larina and Francesco J. DeMayo, Myometrial Progesterone Receptor Determines a Transcription Program for Uterine Remodeling and Contractions During Pregnancy. PNAS Nexus, pgac155, 2022.

2021

Manmohan Singh, Alexander W. Schill, Achuth Nair, Salavat R. Aglyamov, Irina V. Larina, and Kirill V. Larin. Ultra-fast dynamic line-field optical coherence elastography. Optics Letters, 46(19), 4742-4744, 2021.

Shang Wang and Irina V. Larina. In vivo dynamic 3D imaging of oocytes and embryos in the mouse oviduct. Cell Reports 36(2), 109382, 2021.

2020

Shang Wang, Irina V. Larina, and Kirill V. Larin. Label-free optical imaging in developmental biology. Biomedical Optics Express 11(4), 2017-2040, 2020.

Andrew L. Lopez, Shang Wang and Irina V. Larina. Optogenetic cardiac pacing in cultured mouse embryos under imaging guidance, J Biophotonics. doi:10.1002/jbio.202000223, 2020. 

Shang Wang and Irina V. Larina. Live mechanistic assessment of localized cardiac pumping in mammalian tubular embryonic heart, Journal of Biomed Optics. 25(8):1-19. doi:10.1117/1.JBO.25.8.086001 2020.

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Andrew L. Lopez, Shang Wang and Irina V. Larina. Embryonic Mouse Cardiodynamic OCT Imaging, Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease. 7(4), 42, doi:10.3390/jcdd7040042, 2020.

2019

Andrew L. Lopez and Irina V. Larina, Second harmonic generation microscopy of early embryonic mouse hearts. Biomed. Opt. Express 10, 2898-2908, 2019.

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Emma L Moore, Shang Wangand Irina V. Larina. Staging mouse preimplantation development in vivo using optical coherence microscopy. Journal of Biophotonics 8(5): e201800364, 2019.

2018

Anthony P Barrasso, Shang Wang, Xuefei Tong, Audrey E. Christiansen, Irina V. Larina, and Ross A. Poché. Live imaging of developing mouse retinal slices. Neural Development 13(1): 23, 2018.

Shang Wang and Irina V. Larina. In vivo three-dimensional tracking of sperm behaviors in the mouse oviduct. Development. 2018 Mar 19;145(6). pii: dev157685.

Shang Wang, Riana Syed, Olga A. Grishina, and Irina V. Larina. Prolonged in vivo functional assessment of the mouse oviduct using optical coherence tomography through a dorsal imaging window. J. Biophoton, 2018.

Shang Wang, Manmohan Singh, Thuy Tien Tran, John Leach, Salavat R. Aglyamov, Irina V. Larina, James F. Martin, and Kirill V. Larin. Biomechanical assessment of myocardial infarction using optical coherence elastography. Biomedical Optics Express 9, no. 2: 728-742, 2018.

• Featured by The Optical Society (January 2018). Biomechanical Mapping Method Aids Development of Therapies for Damaged Heart Tissue
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James A Loehr, Shang Wang, Tanya R. Cully, Rituraj Pal, Irina V. Larina, Kirill V. Larin, and George G. Rodney. NADPH oxidase mediates microtubule alterations and diaphragm dysfunction in dystrophic mice. eLife 7 (2018): e31732.

2017

Shang Wang, Monica D. Garcia, Andrew L. Lopez III, Paul A. Overbeek, Kirill V. Larin and Irina V. Larina. Dynamic imaging and quantitative analysis of cranial neural tube closure in the mouse embryo using optical coherence tomography. Biomedical Optics Express. 8(1): 407-419, 2017.

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• Highlighted in Spotlight on Optics, March 2017

Olga A. Grishina, Shang Wang, Irina V. Larina Speckle variance optical coherence tomography of blood flow in the beating mouse embryonic heart.J. Biophoton, 10(5): 735–743, 2017.

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2016

Shang Wang, David S. Lakomy, Monica D. Garcia, Andrew L. Lopez III, Kirill V. Larin, and Irina V. Larina, (2016), Four-dimensional live imaging of hemodynamics in mammalian embryonic heart with Doppler optical coherence tomography. J. Biophoton. 9(8):837-47 PMCID: in progress.

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Amanda Rodriguez, Swamy K. Tripurani, Jason C. Burton, Caterina Clementi, Irina V. Larina, and Stephanie A. Pangas. SMAD Signaling Is Required for Structural Integrity of the Female Reproductive Tract and Uterine Function During Early Pregnancy in Mice. Biol Reprod. 2016 Aug;95(2):44.

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Chen Wu, Narendran Sudheendran, Manmohan Singh, Irina V. Larina, Mary E. Dickinson, Kirill V. Larin Rotational imaging optical coherence tomography for full-body mouse embryonic imaging.J. Biomed. Opt. 21(2), 026002 , 2016.

1Manmohan Singh, Raksha Raghunathan, Victor Piazza, Anjul M. Davis-Loiacono, Alex Cable, Tegy J. Vedakkan, Trevor Janecek, Michael V. Frazier, Achuth Nair, Chen Wu, Irina V. Larina, Mary E. Dickinson, and Kirill V. Larin Applicability, usability, and limitations of murine embryonic imaging with optical coherence tomography and optical projection tomography. Biomed Opt Express. 2016 Jun 1; 7(6): 2295–2310.

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2015

Shang Wang, Manmohan Singh, Andrew L. Lopez, III, Chen Wu, Raksha Raghunathan, Kirill V. Larin, and Irina V. Larina. Direct four-dimensional structural and functional imaging of cardiovascular dynamics in mouse embryos with 1.5 MHz optical coherence tomography. Optics Letters, October 2015 (Vol. 40, Issue 20, pp. 4791).

Andrew L. Lopez, III, Shang Wang, Paul A. Overbeek, Kirill V. Larin, and Irina V. Larina. Live four-dimensional optical coherence tomography reveals embryonic cardiac phenotype in mouse mutant. Journal of Biomedical Optics, September 2015 (Vol. 20, Issue 9, pp. 90501).

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Shang Wang*, Jason C. Burton*, Richard R. Behringer, and Irina V. Larina, In vivo micro-scale tomography of ciliary behavior in the mammalian oviduct. Scientific Reports 5, 13216 (2015). (* denotes equal contribution)

Jason C. Burton*, Shang Wang*, C. Allison Stewart, Richard R. Behringer, and Irina V. Larina, High-resolution three-dimensional in vivo imaging of mouse oviduct using optical coherence tomography. Biomed. Opt. Express 6, 2713-2723 (2015). (*denotes equal contribution)

Chih-Wei Hsu, Ross A. Poché, Jennifer E. Saik, Saniya Ali, Shang Wang, Nejla Yosef, Gisele A. Calderon, Larry Scott Jr., Tegy J. Vadakkan, Irina V. Larina, Jennifer L. West, Mary E. Dickinson. Improved Angiogenesis in Response to Localized Delivery of Macrophage-Recruiting Molecules. PLoS ONE 10(7): e0131643 (2015).

Saba H. Syed, Andrew J. Coughlin, Monica D. Garcia, Shang Wang, Jennifer L. West, Kirill V. Larin and Irina V. Larina. Optical coherence tomography guided microinjections in live mouse embryos: high-resolution targeted manipulation for mouse embryonic research. J. Biomed. Opt., 20(5), 051020 (2015).

Prathamesh M Kulkarni, Nicolas Rey-Villamizar, Amine Merouane, Narendran Sudheendran, Shang Wang, Monica Garcia, Irina V Larina, Badrinath Roysam, Kirill V Larin. Algorithms for improved 3-D reconstruction of live mammalian embryo vasculature from optical coherence tomography data. Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery, 5(1): 125-135, 2015.

2014

Monica D. Garcia and Irina V. Larina. Vascular development and hemodynamic force in the mouse yolk sac. Frontiers in Physiology, 5:308, (2014).

Shang Wang, Andrew L. Lopez, Yuka Morikawa, G. Tao, Jiasong Li, Irina V. Larina, James F. Martin, and Kirill V. Larin, Noncontact quantitative biomechanical characterization of cardiac muscle using shear wave imaging optical coherence tomography. Biomedical Optics Express, vol. 5, pp. 1980-1992, 2014/07/01 2014.

Andrew L. Lopez III and Irina V. Larina. Dynamic Imaging of Mouse Embryos and Cardiac Development in Static Culture. Methods Mol Biol. 2206:129-141. doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-0916-3_10, 2021.

Shang Wang and Irina V. Larina. In Vivo Imaging of the Mouse Reproductive Organs, Embryo Transfer, and Oviduct Cilia Dynamics Using Optical Coherence Tomography. Mouse Embryogenesis: Methods and Protocols edited by Paul Delgado-Olguin. Protocols: Methods in Molecular Biology, Springer 2018.

Andrew L. Lopez III and Irina V. Larina. Dynamic Imaging of Mouse Embryos and Cardiodynamics in Static Culture. Mouse Embryogenesis: Methods and Protocols edited by Paul Delgado-Olguin. Protocols: Methods in Molecular Biology, Springer 2018.

Shang Wang and Irina V. Larina. High-resolution imaging techniques in tissue engineering in the Monitoring and evaluation of biomaterials and their performance in vivo. Edited by Roger J. Narayan, Elsevier Press, 2017.

Andrew L. Lopez III, Monica D. Garcia, Mary E. Dickinson and Irina V. Larina. Live confocal microscopy of the developing mouse embryonic yolk sac vasculature. Edited by Domenico Ribatti, Humana Press, 2015.

Monica D. Garcia, Andrew L. Lopez III, Kirill V. Larin and Irina V. Larina. Imaging of cardiovascular development in mammalian embryos using optical coherence tomography.in the “Vascular Morphogenesis". Edited by Domenico Ribatti, Humana Press, 2015.