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vesicles

Vesicles Data


Description

Point pattern of synaptic vesicles observed in rat brain tissue.

Usage

data(vesicles)

Format

The dataset vesicles is a point pattern (object of class "ppp") representing the location of the synaptic vesicles. The window of the point pattern represents the region of presynapse where synaptic vesicles were observed in this study. There is a hole in the window, representing the region occupied by mitochondria, where synaptic vesicles do not occur.

The dataset vesicles.extra is a list with entries

presynapse outer polygonal boundary of presynapse
mitochondria polygonal boundary of mitochondria
mask binary mask representation of vesicles window
activezone line segment pattern representing
the active zone.

All coordinates are in nanometres (nm).

Details

As part of a study on the effects of stress on brain function, Khanmohammadi et al (2014) analysed the spatial pattern of synaptic vesicles in 45-nanometre-thick sections of rat brain tissue visualised in transmission electron microscopy.

To investigate the influence of stress, Khanmohammadi et al (2014) study the distribution of the synaptic vesicles in the pre-synaptic neuron in relation to the active zone of the presynaptic membrane. They hypothesize that the synaptic vesicle density is a decreasing function of distance to the active zone.

The boundaries for the active zone, mitochondria, pre- and post synaptic terminals, and the centre of the synaptic vesicles were annotated by hand on the image.

Raw Data

For demonstration and training purposes, the raw data files for this dataset are also provided in the spatstat.data package installation:

vesicles.txt spatial locations of vesicles
presynapse.txt vertices of presynapse
mitochondria.txt vertices of mitochondria
vesiclesimage.tif greyscale microscope image
vesiclesmask.tif binary image of mask
activezone.txt coordinates of activezone

The files are in the folder rawdata/vesicles in the spatstat.data installation directory. The precise location of the files can be obtained using system.file, as shown in the examples.

Source

Nicoletta Nava, Mahdieh Khanmohammadi and Jens Randel Nyengaard. Experiment performed by Nicoletta Nava at the Stereology and Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Aarhus University, Denmark. Images were annotated by Mahdieh Khanmohammadi at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen. Jens Randel Nyengaard provided supervision and guidance, and curated the data.

References

Khanmohammadi, M., Waagepetersen, R., Nava, N., Nyengaard, J.R. and Sporring, J. (2014) Analysing the distribution of synaptic vesicles using a spatial point process model. 5th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics, Newport Beach, CA, USA, September 2014.

Examples

if(require(spatstat.geom)) {
plot(vesicles)
with(vesicles.extra,
     plot(activezone, add=TRUE, col="red"))
   }

## read coordinates of vesicles from raw data, for training purposes
vf <- system.file("rawdata", "vesicles", "vesicles.txt",
                  package="spatstat.data")
if(!any(nzchar(vf)))
   stop("Could not find raw data file vesicles.txt")
vdf <- read.table(vf, header=TRUE)

spatstat.data

Datasets for 'spatstat' Family

v2.1-0
GPL (>= 2)
Authors
Adrian Baddeley [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9499-8382>), Rolf Turner [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5521-5218>), Ege Rubak [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6675-533X>), W Aherne [ctb], Freda Alexander [ctb], Qi Wei Ang [ctb], Sourav Banerjee [ctb], Mark Berman [ctb], R Bernhardt [ctb], Thomas Berndtsen [ctb], Andrew Bevan [ctb], Jeffrey Betts [ctb], Ray Cartwright [ctb], Richard Condit [ctb], Francis Crick [ctb], Marcelino de la Cruz Rot [ctb], Jack Cuzick [ctb], Tilman Davies [ctb], Peter Diggle [ctb], Michael Drinkwater [ctb], Stephen Eglen [ctb], Robert Edwards [ctb], AE Esler [ctb], Gregory Evans [ctb], Bernard Fingleton [ctb], Olivier Flores [ctb], David Ford [ctb], Robin Foster [ctb], Janet Franklin [ctb], Neba Funwi-Gabga [ctb], DJ Gerrard [ctb], Andy Green [ctb], Tim Griffin [ctb], Ute Hahn [ctb], RD Harkness [ctb], Arthur Hickman [ctb], Stephen Hubbell [ctb], Austin Hughes [ctb], Jonathan Huntington [ctb], MJ Hutchings [ctb], Jackie Inwald [ctb], Valerie Isham [ctb], Aruna Jammalamadaka [ctb], Carl Knox-Robinson [ctb], Mahdieh Khanmohammadi [ctb], Tero Kokkila [ctb], Bas Kooijman [ctb], Kenneth Kosik [ctb], Peter Kovesi [ctb], Lily Kozmian-Ledward [ctb], Robert Lamb [ctb], NA Laskurain [ctb], George Leser [ctb], Marie-Colette van Lieshout [ctb], AF Mark [ctb], Jorge Mateu [ctb], Annikki Makela [ctb], Enrique Miranda [ctb], Nicoletta Nava [ctb], M Numata [ctb], Matti Nummelin [ctb], Jens Randel Nyengaard [ctb], Yosihiko Ogata [ctb], Si Palmer [ctb], Antti Penttinen [ctb], Sandra Pereira [ctb], Nicolas Picard [ctb], William Platt [ctb], Stephen Rathbun [ctb], Brian Ripley [ctb], Roger Sainsbury [ctb], Dietrich Stoyan [ctb], David Strauss [ctb], L Strand [ctb], Masaharu Tanemura [ctb], Graham Upton [ctb], Bill Venables [ctb], Sasha Voss [ctb], Rasmus Waagepetersen [ctb], Keith Watkins [ctb], H Wendrock [ctb]
Initial release
2021-03-16

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