We describe how to implement photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM)-based studies of vesicles in fixed, cultured neurons. Key components of our protocol include labeling vesicles with photoconvertible chimeras, collecting sparsely sampled raw images with a super-resolution microscopy system, and processing the raw images to produce a super-resolution image.
Scalettar, B. A., Shaver, D., Kaech, S., Lochner, J. E. Super-resolution Imaging of Neuronal Dense-core Vesicles. J. Vis. Exp. (89), e51394, doi:10.3791/51394 (2014).