Justus-Liebig-University

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Medicine

Videomorphometric Analysis of Hypoxic Pulmonary Vasoconstriction of Intra-pulmonary Arteries Using Murine Precision Cut Lung Slices

Renate Paddenberg¹, Petra Mermer¹, Anna Goldenberg¹, Wolfgang Kummer¹

¹Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Justus-Liebig-University

Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV) is an important physiological phenomenon by which at alveolar hypoxia lung perfusion is matched to ventilation. The major vascular segment contributing to HPV is the intra-acinar artery. Here, we describe our protocol for the analysis of HPV of murine pulmonary vessels with diameters of 20-100 μm.

Genetics

Formaldehyde-assisted Isolation of Regulatory Elements to Measure Chromatin Accessibility in Mammalian Cells

Alfonso Rodríguez-Gil¹, Tabea Riedlinger², Olesja Ritter², Vera V. Saul², M. Lienhard Schmitz²

¹Department of Oncohematology and Genetics. Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBiS), University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, ²Institute of Biochemistry, Medical Faculty, Friedrichstrasse 24, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Justus-Liebig-University

The plasticity of nuclear architecture is controlled by dynamic epigenetic mechanisms including non-coding RNAs, DNA methylation, nucleosome repositioning as well as histone composition and modification. Here we describe a Formaldehyde-Assisted Isolation of Regulatory Elements (FAIRE) protocol which allows the determination of chromatin accessibility in a reproducible, inexpensive, and straightforward manner.