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Medicine

Performing Subretinal Injections in Rodents to Deliver Retinal Pigment Epithelium Cells in Suspension
Peter D. Westenskow 1,2, Toshihide Kurihara 1, Stephen Bravo 1, Daniel Feitelberg 1, Zack A. Sedillo 2, Edith Aguilar 1, Martin Friedlander 1,2
1Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 2Lowy Medical Research Institute

Here we present a community accepted protocol in multimedia format for subretinally injecting a bolus of RPE cells in rats and mice. This approach can be used for determining rescue potentials, safety profiles, and survival capacities of grafted RPE cells upon implantation in animal models of retinal degeneration.

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Immunology and Infection

Assessing Retinal Microglial Phagocytic Function In Vivo Using a Flow Cytometry-based Assay
Salome Murinello 1, Stacey K. Moreno 1, Matthew S. Macauley 2, Susumu Sakimoto 1, Peter D. Westenskow 1,3, Martin Friedlander 1
1Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 2Department of Chemical Physiology, The Scripps Research Institute, 3The Lowy Medical Research Institute

Microglial phagocytosis is critical for the maintenance of tissue homeostasis and inadequate phagocytic function has been implicated in pathology. However, assessing microglia function in vivo is technically challenging. We have developed a simple but robust technique for precisely monitoring and quantifying the phagocytic potential of microglia in a physiological setting.

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