| Dissecting the Rat Mammary Gland: Isolation, Characterization, and Culture of Purified Mammary Epithelial Cells and Fibroblasts
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2020-11-20
[Abstract] With the advent of CRISPR-Cas and the ability to easily modify the genome of diverse organisms, rat models are being increasingly developed to interrogate the genetic events underlying mammary development and tumorigenesis. Protocols for the isolation and characterization of mammary epithelial cell subpopulations have been thoroughly developed for mouse and human tissues, yet there is an increasing need for rat-specific protocols. To date, there are no standard protocols for isolating rat mammary epithelial subpopulations. Analyzing changes in the rat mammary hierarchy will help us elucidate the molecular events in breast cancer, the cells of origin for breast cancer subtypes, and the impact of the tumor microenvironment. Here we describe several methods developed for 1) rat mammary ...
[摘要] [摘要]随着CRISPR-Cas的出现以及能够轻松修饰各种生物的基因组的能力，越来越多地开发大鼠模型来询问乳腺发育和肿瘤发生的遗传事件。已经为小鼠和人类组织彻底开发了用于分离和表征乳腺上皮细胞亚群的方案，但是对大鼠特异性方案的需求却在不断增长。迄今为止，还没有用于分离大鼠乳腺上皮亚群的标准方案。分析大鼠乳腺层次的变化将有助于我们阐明乳腺癌中的分子事件，乳腺癌亚型的起源细胞以及肿瘤微环境的影响。在这里，我们描述为1）大鼠乳腺上皮细胞分离开发的几种方法；2）大鼠乳腺成纤维细胞分离；3）培养大鼠乳腺上皮细胞；通过4）流式细胞仪分析和鉴定大鼠乳腺细胞；5）免疫荧光。源自该协议的细胞可用于多种目的，包括RNAseq ，药物研究，功能测定，基因/蛋白质表达分析和图像分析。
[背景]大多数与乳腺有关的研究都是在小鼠模型和人体样品中进行的。然而，由于其具有类似于人的药代动力学特征和乳腺发育，该疾病的大鼠模型正变得越来越流行（Russo等人，1990；Jiunn等人，2008； Smalley等人，2016）。像人类腺癌一样，大鼠乳腺癌也经历组织学发展阶段（Russo等，1990； Singh等，2000），并且是卵巢激素依赖性的（Thompson等，1998； ...
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| Integration of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (hiPSC)-Derived Neurons into Rat Brain
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2020-09-05
[Abstract] Human neuron transplantation offers novel opportunities for modeling human neurologic diseases and potentially replacement therapies. However, the complex structure of the human cerebral cortex, which is organized in six layers with tightly interconnected excitatory and inhibitory neuronal networks, presents significant challenges for in vivo transplantation techniques to obtain a balanced, functional and homeostatically stable neuronal network. Here, we present a protocol to introduce human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-derived neural progenitors to rat brains. Using this approach, hiPSC-derived neurons structurally integrate into the rat forebrain, exhibit electrophysiological characteristics, including firing, excitatory and inhibitory synaptic activity, and establish ...
[摘要] [摘要] 人类神经元移植为建模人类神经系统疾病和潜在的替代疗法提供了新的机会。然而，人脑皮层的复杂结构分为六层，具有紧密互连的兴奋性和抑制性神经元网络，这对体内移植技术获得平衡，功能稳定和稳态稳定的神经元网络提出了重大挑战。在这里，我们提出了一项协议，将人类诱导的多能干细胞（hiPSC ）衍生的神经祖细胞引入大鼠脑。使用这种方法，hiPSC 衍生的神经元在结构上整合到大鼠前脑中，表现出电生理特性，包括放电，兴奋性和抑制性突触活性，并与宿主电路建立神经元连通性。
[背景] 人类大脑皮层是一个复杂的细胞镶嵌体，在不同的皮质层（I-VI）中包含多样化的神经元亚型，可建立轴突输出和树突状输入的特定模式，提供了皮质电路的基本底物（Rakic，2009; Lodato 等等人，2011； Lui 等人，2011）。特别地，兴奋性和抑制性神经传递的平衡对于适当的脑功能是必需的（Turrigiano和Nelson，2004）。人类诱导的多能干细胞（hiPSC ）可以在人类遗传背景下对人类神经系统疾病进行建模（Dolmetsch和Geschwind，2011； Brennand 等，2015； Vera和Studer，2015）。建立体外系统以将hiPSCs ...
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| 3D Culture Protocol for Testing Gene Knockdown Efficiency and Cell Line Derivation
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2018-06-05
[Abstract] Traditional 2D cell cultures with cells grown as monolayers on solid surface still represent the standard method in cancer research for drug testing. Cells grown in 2D cultures, however, lack relevant cell-matrix and cell-cell interactions and ignore the true three-dimensional anatomy of solid tumors. Cells cultured in 2D can also undergo cytoskeletal rearrangements and acquire artificial polarity associated with aberrant gene expression (Edmondson et al., 2014). 3D culture systems that better mimic the in vivo situation have been developed recently. 3D in vitro cancer models (tumorspheres) for studying cancer stem cells have gained increased popularity in the field (Weiswald et al., 2015). Systems that use matrix-embedded or encapsulated spheroids, ...
[摘要] 细胞在固体表面生长为单层的传统二维细胞培养仍然代表了药物检测癌症研究的标准方法。然而，在2D培养物中生长的细胞缺乏相关的细胞基质和细胞 - 细胞相互作用，并且忽略实体肿瘤的真实三维解剖结构。在2D中培养的细胞也可经历细胞骨架重排并获得与异常基因表达相关的人造极性（Edmondson等人，2014）。最近开发出更好地模拟体内情况的3D文化系统。用于研究癌症干细胞的3D体外肿瘤模型（肿瘤球体）在该领域已经获得了越来越多的普及（Weiswald等人，2015）。使用基质嵌入或封装的球体，悬滴培养的球体，磁悬浮系统或3D打印方法的系统已经广泛用于研究和新药筛选。在本文中，我们描述了测试shRNA介导的基因沉默对肿瘤球体形成和生长的影响的详细方案。这种方法允许研究人员测试基因敲低对肿瘤起始细胞生长的影响。正如我们实验室所证实的那样，该方案也可用于直接从肿瘤组织中分离3D癌细胞系。
【背景】3D体外肿瘤细胞模型代表了细胞系与体内生长的肿瘤之间的桥接实验方法（Pampaloni等人，2007; ...
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