وأيد العمل من المنح المقدمة من Helse عوج Rehabilitering (JLB) ، ومجلس البحوث النرويجي (GH وحرس السواحل) وجامعة أوسلو (ناغورني كاراباخ وحرس السواحل).

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الجنين الدجاج هو نموذج حيواني مريحة وتنوعا للتجارب زرع الأعضاء. عدم وجود نظام المناعة وظيفية أثناء التطور الجنيني والجنين يسمح للبقاء وتنمية الخلايا من أي نوع من الأنواع التي تتحمل درجة حرارة الحضانة. وقد استخدمت أجنة الدجاج لاختبار إمكانات التجدد لأنواع مختلفة من الخلايا الجذعية (إعادة النظر في المرجع 15). الخلايا الجذعية الثدييات يمكن أن تدمج في أنسجة الجنين الدجاج بما في ذلك النظام العصبي المركزي ، حيث يمكن أن تؤدي إلى الخلايا العصبية التي محواري التوقعات ، يمكن تقييم اتصال متشابك والخصائص الكهربية في سياق وظيفي 1،2 الدارات العصبية. لأن العمليات الجراحية سهلة نسبيا ، ويتم إجراء الحقن تحت البصرية بدلا من السيطرة التجسيمي ، يمكن بسهولة أن عدد الأجنة يمكن زيادة لاستيعاب ظروف تجريبية مختلفة في تجربة واحدة. يمكن عادة يتم حقن الخلايا في الأجنة 20-30 ضمن التجربة 4 ساعة. وفيات بعد حقن الأجنة هو العامل الرئيسي الحد. يجب اتخاذ الاحتياطات اللازمة لتجنب النزف والجفاف. أن ندرك أن هناك بعض مراحل تطور حاسم في معدل وفيات الأطفال الذي يزيد الطبيعية. المكمل للجنين مع عدد قليل من مل الدافئة ، حقن معقمة الدجاج المسابقة التالية وقبل يوم واحد مراحل النمو الحرجة ، فضلا عن ضمان أن نافذة في البيض جيدا مختومة وموجهة لتفادي تسرب ، ويحسن البقاء على قيد الحياة. إذا كان التسرب من خلال ختم الشريط يجب أن تحدث ، وإزالة الشريط ، تجفيف الأسطح وإعادة الشريط. بعض المحققين استخدام الشمع والزجاج أو البلاستيك coverslips لاغلاق النافذة. يجب أن معدل وفيات لن تكون مختلفة كثيرا في حقن مقابل الشام التي تديرها الأجنة. على الرغم من أننا قد ركزت هنا على حقن الخلايا الجذعية البشرية في بدأة من الدماغ والحبل الشوكي ، ويمكن أيضا أن حقن الخلايا الجذعية في بدأة الأجهزة الأخرى (انظر على سبيل المثال المرجع 4). كل جهاز يطرح تحديات خاصة بها. على سبيل المثال ، يمكن حقنها في القلب يمكن أن يكون تحديا بسبب مقاومة ميكانيكية عالية على الاختراق وماصة بسبب الحركات ، والتي من ناحية أخرى يمكن أن تباطأ عن طريق التبريد الأجنة في درجة حرارة الغرفة قبل الحقن. ويجوز للأجهزة التي تفتقر إلى التجويف لا تستوعب كميات كافية من الحقن ، ويمكن بالتالي تتطلب آفة الجراحية لخلق وعاء. في تجربتنا ، بعد تجديد أنسجة الآفة هي ميزة لأنها تشجع على التكامل من الخلايا الجذعية البشرية في الأنسجة. ويمكن أيضا أن تكون خلايا اللحمة المتوسطة حقنها الجنينية مثل اللحمة المتوسطة في somitic تفريق أو العرف المهاجرة العصبية باعتبارها وسيلة لتحقيق إدماج المشتقات الوسيطة ، بما في ذلك قمة العقد العصبية المشتقة المحيطية 16،17.

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xenotransplantation of human stem cells into the chicken embryo

الجنين الدجاج هو نموذج حيواني الكلاسيكية لدراسة التطور الجنيني الطبيعي والجنين واجراء تجارب زرع الأعضاء لدراسة سلوك الخلايا في موحد<em&gt; في الجسم الحي</em&gt; البيئة. المزايا الرئيسية للجنين الدجاج تشمل التكلفة المنخفضة ، وسهولة الوصول عالية ، وسهولة التلاعب الجراحية وعدم وجود نظام المناعة تطويره بالكامل. يمكن زرع الأعضاء في أجنة الدجاج تقديم معلومات قيمة حول تكاثر الخلايا ، والتمايز والسلوك ، والاستجابات من الخلايا لإشارات محددة في الأنسجة الجنينية محاريب ، ومكون للأورام محتملة. ويمكن زرع الخلايا في أجنة الدجاج أيضا أن يكون خطوة نحو تجارب زرع في النماذج الحيوانية الأخرى. وقد تم مؤخرا استخدام الأجنة الدجاج لتقييم إمكانات عصبية من الخلايا الجذعية البشرية والسلف بعد زرع في بدأة العصبية<sup&gt; 1-6</sup&gt;. نحن في هذا الفيديو توثيق الإجراء بأكمله لزرع الخلايا الجذعية البشرية في النظام العصبي المركزي النامية الجنين الدجاج. الإجراء تبدأ حضانة البيض المخصب حتى الأجنة في العصر المرجوة التي وضعتها. ثم يتم فتح قشر البيض ، ويتناقض الجنين عن طريق حقن صبغة بين الجنين وصفار البيض و. آفات صغيرة مصنوعة في الأنبوب العصبي باستخدام الجراحة المجهرية ، وخلق موقع على التجدد لترسب الخلايا التي تعزز التكامل اللاحقة في النسيج المضيف. نظهر حقن الخلايا الجذعية البشرية في مثل هذه الآفات التي أدلي بها في جزء من الأنبوب العصبي الذي يشكل الدماغ المؤخر والنخاع الشوكي ، وداخل تجويف الجزء من الأنبوب العصبية التي تشكل المخ. وتتجلى أيضا في حقن الأوردة الجهازية خارج الجنين والشرايين وسيلة بديلة لتقديم خلايا الأنسجة أوعية دموية بما في ذلك النظام العصبي المركزي. أخيرا نبين كيفية إزالة الجنين من بويضة بعد عدة أيام لمزيد من التطوير وكيفية تشريح النخاع الشوكي مجانا لاحقة تحليلات الفسيولوجية والنسيجية أو البيوكيميائية.

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Xenotransplantation of Human Stem Cells into the Chicken Embryo

في هذه الورقة نقدم طريقة لزرع الخلايا الجذعية البشرية في مناطق مختلفة من الجهاز العصبي المركزي للجنين الدجاج. هذا يوفر<em&gt; في الجسم الحي</em&gt; نموذج لتقييم انتشار والتفريق بين أنواع مختلفة من الخلايا الجذعية البشرية في بيئات الأنسجة الجنينية.

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19.2K Views.  University of Oslo. في هذه الورقة نقدم طريقة لزرع الخلايا الجذعية البشرية في مناطق مختلفة من الجهاز العصبي المركزي للجنين الدجاج. هذا يوفر في الجسم الحي نموذج لتقييم انتشار والتفريق بين أنواع مختلفة من الخلايا الجذعية البشرية في بيئات الأنسجة الجنينية.

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Propagation of Human Embryonic Stem (ES) Cells

Propagation of Human Embryonic Stem ES Cells

Yeah, so I'm Lauren Deon. I'm in charge of the Human Amgen stem cell co facility at MGH. Yeah, so I'm Lauren, I'm in charge of the Human AM stem cell co facility at MGH.So I've been working with human Amgen stem cells for years now since I was a postdoc in George De Lab before, from four, four years. And so right now we have two cell lines, H one and H nine, which are both from Y cell. And so the way we are expanding or maintaining these cells in culture is by, at least the way we are splitting these cells is by using collagenous.So what I usually do is for the first few passage after throwing the cells, I use a technical, the picking colonies. So in this case, I can check under the microscope which colonies are good and differentiate and nice shape, and I will collect only these colonies and I will cut them in few pieces and put them back in, in a fresh flat. And the, the colonies that look kind of differentiate it are just left them alone.The other way to pass the cells is by using trypsin. So I don't use this technique here. I think collagenase is a little bit safer because human being stem cells don't like to be individualized or they don't like to be alone.So if you do trypsin, if you use trypsin for a little bit too long, if you use it for like three to four minutes, which is the way we use strips in for other type of cells, human stem cells will be individualized and most of them will die or just differentiate or will not attach to the myth. So the idea is you have to keep the cells as clumps. You don't want them to be alone in the in, in the flask.So using collagenase, the advantage is to keep cells as plants. Using chipsy, you just select for cells that will survive this very, very harsh process of g opsonization. So these cells are usually very highly proliferative.So you get, you can adapt your cells to this tripsin process. The problem is that you have cells that they behave differently, they go much faster. And one risk is that you can get some commercial abnormality to, to this, to this very high division process.So you say that ization can cause selection of cells in culture for most proliferative cells.Right. More ative and probably also higher survival rates than other cells. So after proliferation, basically culture after proliferation in tripsin, after several passages become a different culture, these different properties.So it's, it's hard to figure out if they are exactly identical. If you do the test, the usual test, let's say you check markers, regular markers of end differentiated cells like OC four, nano one 60 SC four C, C3, all this molecule might still be expressed. If you do TER formation, this cells might still differentiate and be formed like al like normal cells.If you look at the karyotype, you might have some abnormality, but you might still have a normal karyotype. The, the, the selective advantage might be due to just a mutation that you cannot see by doing a karyotype. So the fact that they grow much faster is by itself I think a little bit worser.And if we want to use these cells for transplantation at some point, I would definitely not use this type of cells.Okay. So would you like to tell me what are the main technical problems with using this technique for, for passages of cells? So using S, yes.It's just a little bit longer and also it's, since the cells are not going as fast, it's just much longer to get a high number of cells to do some experiment. So it's just less convenient I would say. Would you like to tell me about few words about the goals of your experiment?How do you use CS cells? Okay, so my main project here is to get endothelial cells from human AB stem cells. And the idea is to be able to make blood.And we are working a lot with tissue bioengineering labs and one of their goal is to make tissue in vitro. But one of the limitation to this is the lack of blood vessels going through this tissues. So if we can bring endothelial cells or put endothelial cells in this tissue, we would have better growth of this tissue.So the idea few sources of cells are known for endothelial cells like cold blood or pressure blood, but it would be interesting to have another source of cells like human years. And the advantage is since human years can be expanded and most infinitely, you could modify these cells, make some inducible system and be able to use it. Then in your final product, your material cells, in this case.

انتشار الخلايا الجنينية البشرية (ES) الجذعية

Transfecting Human Neural Stem Cells with the Amaxa Nucleofector

Transfection of primary mammalian neural cells, such as human neural stem/precursor cells (hNSPCs), with commonly used cationic lipid transfection reagents has often resulted in poor cell viability and low transfection efficiency.  Other mechanical methods of introducing a gene of interest, such as a &#8220;gene gun&#8221; or microinjection, are also limited by poor cell viability and low numbers of transfected cells.  The strategy of using viral constructs to introduce an exogenous gene into primary cells has been constrained by both the amount of time and labor required to create viral vectors and potential safety concerns.  We describe here a step-by-step protocol for transfecting hNSPCs using Amaxa's Nucleofector device and technology with electrical current parameters and buffer solutions specifically optimized for transfecting neural stem cells.  Using this protocol, we have achieved initial transfection efficiencies of ~35% and ~70% after stable transfection.  The protocol entails combining a high number of hNSPCs with the DNA to be transfected in the appropriate buffer followed by electroporation with the Nucleofector device.

Introducing a gene of interest into a cell is a powerful method for elucidating its function in vivo. This protocol describes an efficient method of transfecting a culture of human neural stem/precursor cells (hNSPCs) using the Nucleofector electroporation apparatus made by Amaxa.

Transfecting الإنسان الخلايا الجذعية العصبية مع Nucleofector Amaxa

Transfection of primary mammalian neural cells, such as human neural stem/precursor cells (hNSPCs), with commonly used cationic lipid transfection ...

Counting Human Neural Stem Cells

Knowledge of the exact number of viable cells in a given volume of a cell suspension is required for many routine tissue culture manipulations, such as plating cells for immunocytochemistry or for cell transfections. This protocol describes a straightforward and fast method for differentiating between live and dead cells and quantifying the cell concentration and total cell number using a hemacytometer. This procedure first requires detaching cells from a growth surface and resuspending them in media. Next, the cells are diluted in a solution of Trypan blue (ideally to a concentration that will give 20-50 cells per quadrant) and placed in the hemacytometer. Finally, averaging the counts of viable cells in several randomly selected quadrants, dividing the average by the volume of one 1 mm2 quadrant (0.1 &mu;l) and multiplying by the dilution factor gives the number of cells per l. Multiplying this cell concentration by the total volume in &mu;l gives the total cell number. This protocol describes counting human neural stem/precursor cells (hNSPCs), but can also be used for many other cell types.

Knowledge of the exact number of viable cells is required for many tissue culture manipulations. This protocol describes how to differentiate between live and dead cells and quantify cells using a hemacytometer. Although it describes counting human neural stem/precursor cells (hNSPCs), it can be used for other cell types.

عد الخلايا الجذعية العصبية البشرية

Knowledge of the exact number of viable cells in a given volume of a cell suspension is required for many routine tissue culture manipulations, such as ...

Passaging Human Neural Stem Cells

The ability to manipulate human neural stem/precursor cells (hNSPCs) in vitro provides a means to investigate their utility as cell transplants for therapeutic purposes as well as to explore many fundamental processes of human neural development and pathology.  This protocol presents a simple method of culturing and passaging hNSPCs in hopes of standardizing this technique and increasing reproducibility of human stem cell research.  The hNSPCs we use were isolated from cadaveric postnatal brain cortices by the National Human Neural Stem Cell Resource and grown as adherent cultures on flasks coated with fibronectin (Palmer et al., 2001; Schwartz et al., 2003).  We culture our hNSPCs in a DMEM:F12 serum-free media supplemented with EGF, FGF, and PDGF and passage them 1:2 approximately every seven days.  Using these conditions, the majority of the cells in the culture maintain a bipolar morphology and express markers of undifferentiated neural stem cells (such as nestin and sox2).

The ability to manipulate human neural stem/precursor cells (hNSPCs) in vitro allows to investigate their utility as cell transplants for therapeutic purposes and to explore human neural development. This protocol presents a method of culturing and passaging hNSPCs in hopes of increasing reproducibility of human stem cell research.

الركض الخلايا الجذعية العصبية البشرية

The ability to manipulate human neural stem/precursor cells (hNSPCs) in vitro provides a means to investigate their utility as cell transplants for ...

Immunocytochemistry: Human Neural Stem Cells

Immunocytochemistry is a very powerful and fairly straightforward method for determining the presence, subcellular localization, and relative abundance of an antigen of interest, most commonly a protein, in cultured cells. This protocol presents an easy-to-follow series of steps that will enable researchers to conserve primary and secondary antibodies while getting high quality, reproducible qualitative and quantitative data out of their staining. There are two aspects of this protocol that help to conserve the volume of antibody necessary for staining. For one, the cells are grown on small, circular coverslips that are placed in wells of a tissue culture plate. After fixation, the cells on coverslips can be removed from the wells of the plate. For antibody staining, the coverslip with cells is inverted onto a small drop of antibody solution on parafilm and is covered with a second piece of parafilm to prevent drying. Using this method, only ~25 &mu;l of antibody solution is needed for each coverslip (or sample) to be stained. This protocol describes immunostaining of human neural stem/precursor cells (hNSPCs), but can be used for many other cell types.

Immunocytochemistry is a powerful method to determine the presence, subcellular localization, and relative abundance of an antigen of interest in cultured cells. This protocol presents an easy-to-follow series of steps that will enable one to conserve antibodies and get the most out of one's staining.

كيمياء سيتولوجية مناعية : الخلايا الجذعية العصبية البشرية

Immunocytochemistry is a very powerful and fairly straightforward method for determining the presence, subcellular localization, and relative abundance of ...

In Ovo Electroporations of HH Stage 10 Chicken Embryos

Large size and external development of the chicken embryo have long made it a valuable tool in the study of developmental biology.  With the advent of molecular biological techniques, the chick has become a useful system in which to study gene regulation and function.  By electroporating DNA or RNA constructs into the developing chicken embryo, genes can be expressed or knocked down in order to analyze in vivo gene function.  Similarly, reporter constructs can be used for fate mapping or to examine putative gene regulatory elements.  Compared to similar experiments in mouse, chick electroporation has the advantages of being quick, easy and inexpensive.  This video demonstrates first how to make a window in the eggshell to manipulate the embryo.  Next, the embryo is visualized with a dilute solution of India ink injected below the embryo.  A glass needle and pipette are used to inject DNA and Fast Green dye into the developing neural tube, then platinum electrodes are placed parallel to the embryo and short electrical pulses are administered with a pulse generator.  Finally, the egg is sealed with tape and placed back into an incubator for further development.  Additionally, the video shows proper egg storage and handling and discusses possible causes of embryo loss following electroporation.

Chick in ovo electroporation is a technique which allows genetic manipulation of the avian embryo. Common applications of this technique include functional analysis of genes and putative enhancer elements. This video demonstrates neural tube electroporation in HH 10 chick embryos. Injection technique and proper egg handling are discussed.

Electroporations OVO في مرحلة الجنين سمو الدجاج 10

Large size and external development of the chicken embryo have long made it a valuable tool in the study of developmental biology.  With the advent of ...

Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells into Oligodendrocyte Precursors

Oligodendrocytes are the myelinating cells of the central nervous system. For regenerative cell therapy in demyelinating diseases, there is significant interest in deriving a pure population of lineage-committed oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) for transplantation. OPCs are characterized by the activity of the transcription factor Olig2 and surface expression of a proteoglycan NG2. Using the GFP-Olig2 (G-Olig2) mouse embryonic stem cell (mESC) reporter line, we optimized conditions for the differentiation of mESCs into GFP+Olig2+NG2+ OPCs. In our protocol, we first describe the generation of embryoid bodies (EBs) from mESCs. Second, we describe treatment of mESC-derived EBs with small molecules: (1) retinoic acid (RA) and (2) a sonic hedgehog (Shh) agonist purmorphamine (Pur) under defined culture conditions to direct EB differentiation into the oligodendroglial lineage. By this approach, OPCs can be obtained with high efficiency (&gt;80%) in a time period of 30 days. Cells derived from mESCs in this protocol are phenotypically similar to OPCs derived from primary tissue culture. The mESC-derived OPCs do not show the spiking property described for a subpopulation of brain OPCs in situ. To study this electrophysiological property, we describe the generation of spiking mESC-derived OPCs by ectopically expressing NaV1.2 subunit. The spiking and nonspiking cells obtained from this protocol will help advance functional studies on the two subpopulations of OPCs.

We describe a small molecule-based protocol for differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells into oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs). This protocol generates Olig2+NG2+ OPCs with high efficiency by 30 days of differentiation. We also describe a method to generate "spiking" OPCs that can fire action potentials.

تمايز الخلايا الجذعية الجنينية في السلائف Oligodendrocyte

Oligodendrocytes are the myelinating cells of the central nervous system. For regenerative cell therapy in demyelinating diseases, there is significant ...

Lentiviral-mediated Knockdown During Ex Vivo Erythropoiesis of Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells

Erythropoiesis is a commonly used model system to study cell differentiation. During erythropoiesis, pluripotent adult human hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) differentiate into oligopotent progenitors, committed precursors and mature red blood cells 1. This process is regulated for a large part at the level of gene expression, whereby specific transcription factors activate lineage-specific genes while concomitantly repressing genes that are specific to other cell types 2. Studies on transcription factors regulating erythropoiesis are often performed using human and murine cell lines that represent, to some extent, erythroid cells at given stages of differentiation 3-5. However transformed cell lines can only partially mimic erythroid cells and most importantly they do not allow one to comprehensibly study the dynamic changes that occur as cells progress through many stages towards their final erythroid fate. Therefore, a current challenge remains the development of a protocol to obtain relatively homogenous populations of primary HSCs and erythroid cells at various stages of differentiation in quantities that are sufficient to perform genomics and proteomics experiments.
Here we describe an ex vivo cell culture protocol to induce erythroid differentiation from human hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells that have been isolated from either cord blood, bone marrow, or adult peripheral blood mobilized with G-CSF (leukapheresis). This culture system, initially developed by the Douay laboratory 6, uses cytokines and co-culture on mesenchymal cells to mimic the bone marrow microenvironment. Using this ex vivo differentiation protocol, we observe a strong amplification of erythroid progenitors, an induction of differentiation exclusively towards the erythroid lineage and a complete maturation to the stage of enucleated red blood cells. Thus, this system provides an opportunity to study the molecular mechanism of transcriptional regulation as hematopoietic stem cells progress along the erythroid lineage. 
Studying erythropoiesis at the transcriptional level also requires the ability to over-express or knockdown specific factors in primary erythroid cells. For this purpose, we use a lentivirus-mediated gene delivery system that allows for the efficient infection of both dividing and non-dividing cells 7. Here we show that we are able to efficiently knockdown the transcription factor TAL1 in primary human erythroid cells. In addition, GFP expression demonstrates an efficiency of lentiviral infection close to 90%. Thus, our protocol provides a highly useful system for characterization of the regulatory network of transcription factors that control erythropoiesis.

Lentiviral-mediated Knockdown During Ex Vivo Erythropoiesis of Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells

An ex vivo protocol to generate mature human red blood cells from hematopoietic stem/progenitors is described. Additionally we describe an efficient lentiviral-delivery method to knockdown the transcription factor TAL1 in primary erythroid cells. The efficiency of lentivirus mediated gene delivery is demonstrated using GFP expressing viruses.

Lentiviral بوساطة خلال ضربة قاضية السابقين فيفو تكون الكريات الحمر في الإنسان خلايا الجذعية المكونة للدم

Erythropoiesis is a commonly used model system to study cell differentiation. During erythropoiesis, pluripotent adult human hematopoietic stem cells ...

Reprogramming Human Somatic Cells into Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) Using Retroviral Vector with GFP

Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are pluripotent and an invaluable cellular sources for in vitro disease modeling and regenerative medicine1. It has been previously shown that human somatic cells can be reprogrammed to pluripotency by ectopic expression of four transcription factors (Oct4, Sox2, Klf4 and Myc) and become induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)2-4 . Like hESCs, human iPSCs are pluripotent and a potential source for autologous cells. Here we describe the protocol to reprogram human fibroblast cells with the four reprogramming factors cloned into GFP-containing retroviral backbone4. Using the following protocol, we generate human iPSCs in 3-4 weeks under human ESC culture condition. Human iPSC colonies closely resemble hESCs in morphology and display the loss of GFP fluorescence as a result of retroviral transgene silencing. iPSC colonies isolated mechanically under a fluorescence microscope behave in a similar fashion as hESCs. In these cells, we detect the expression of multiple pluripotency genes and surface markers.

Reprogramming Human Somatic Cells into Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells iPSCs Using Retroviral Vector with GFP

A method to generate human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) via retrovirus-mediated ectopic expression of OCT4, SOX2, KLF4 and MYC is described. A practical way to identify human iPSC colonies based on GFP expression is also discussed.

إعادة برمجة الخلايا الجسدية البشرية المستحثة إلى الخلايا الجذعية المحفزة (iPSCs) استخدام ناقلات فيروسات الرجعية مع GFP

Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are pluripotent and an invaluable cellular sources for in vitro disease modeling and regenerative medicine1. It has ...

Induction and Analysis of Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition

Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is essential for proper morphogenesis during development. Misregulation of this process has been implicated as a key event in fibrosis and the progression of carcinomas to a metastatic state. Understanding the processes that underlie EMT is imperative for the early diagnosis and clinical control of these disease states. Reliable induction of EMT in vitro is a useful tool for drug discovery as well as to identify common gene expression signatures for diagnostic purposes. Here we demonstrate a straightforward method for the induction of EMT in a variety of cell types. Methods for the analysis of cells pre- and post-EMT induction by immunocytochemistry are also included. Additionally, we demonstrate the effectiveness of this method through antibody-based array analysis and migration/invasion assays.

A straightforward method is described for the induction of epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) in a variety of cell types. Methods for the analysis of cells in EMT states by immunocytochemistry are included.

الاستقراء وتحليل الظهارية الوسيطة الانتقالية ل

Epithelial  to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is essential for proper morphogenesis during  development. Misregulation of this  process has been implicated ...