modeling neuronal injury in mouse primary cerebellar granule neurons

Modeling Neuronal Injury in Mouse Primary Cerebellar Granule Neurons

To induce neuronal excitotoxicity with NMDA, following seven days in vitro, treat the cerebellar granule neurons with 100 micromolar NMDA and 10 micromolar glycine for one hour. Then, replace the medium with conditioned medium from the parallel cultures with no treatment. This concentration results in 50% cell death at 24 hours post-treatment.

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1. Experimental Preparation
NOTE: The following stock solutions can be prepared and maintained until use.
<ol>
	<li>Dissection Solution
	<ol>
		<li>Dissolve 3.62 g of sodium chloride (NaCl), 0.2 g of potassium chloride (KCl), 0.069 g of sodium phosphate (NaH2PO4&#160;&#8729; H2O), and 1.306 g of D-(+)-Glucose in 500 mL of distilled H2O. Then, add 12.5 mL of HEPES Buffer, 450 &#181;L of Phenol red solution, and 20 mL of Bovine serum albumin (BSA) fraction V to the solution. Adjust to pH 7.4 using 1 N sodium hydroxide (NaOH).</li>
		<li>Sterilize with a 0.22 &#181;m filter and store at 4 &#176;C. This solution will remain stable for up to one week to 10 days.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Trypsin
	<ol>
		<li>Prepare a stock solution at a concentration of 25 g/L of trypsin in 0.9% sodium chloride. Store the solution at -20 &#176;C.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Trypsin Inhibitor
	<ol>
		<li>Prepare a stock with a concentration of 10 mg/mL by dissolving 1 g of chicken egg white trypsin inhibitor in 100 mL of 1 mM HCl. Store this solution at -20 &#176;C.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Deoxyribonuclease (DNase)
	<ol>
		<li>Dissolve 100 mg of DNase 1 in 10 mL of sterile water to generate a 10 mg/mL stock. Store the solution at -20 &#176;C.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>MgSO4
	<ol>
		<li>Add 6.02 g of magnesium sulfate (MgSO4) to 50 mL of distilled water (H2O) to generate a 1 M stock. Store the solution at 4 &#176;C.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>CaCl2
	<ol>
		<li>Dissolve 0.735 g of calcium chloride (CaCl2&#8729; 2H2O) in 50 mL of distilled H2O to a stock concentration of 100 mM. Store solution at 4 &#176;C.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>KCl
	<ol>
		<li>Dissolve 3.7275 g of KCl in 50 mL of distilled H2O to a stock concentration of 1 M. Store solution at 4 &#176;C.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>D-(+)-Glucose
	<ol>
		<li>Dissolve 1.802 g of D-(+)-glucose in 50 mL of distilled H2O to a stock concentration of 100 mM. Store solution at 4 &#176;C.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Cell Culture Media
	<ol>
		<li>Prepare cell culture media as follows: 5 mL of heat inactivated dialyzed Fetal Bovine Serum, 500 &#181;L of 200 mM L-Glutamine, 100 &#181;L of 50 mg/mL Gentamycin and 1 mL of 1.0 M KCL should be added to 45 mL of filter sterilized Eagle&#39;s minimal essential media (E-MEM) that is supplemented with 1.125 g/L D-Glucose to generate 50 mL of cerebellar granule neuron (CGN) culture media. Store media at 4 &#176;C.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Cytosine Beta-D- Arabino Furanoside
	<ol>
		<li>Dissolve 48 mg of cytosine beta-D-arabino furanoside in 10 mL of growth media to a stock concentration of 20 mM. Store solution at -20 &#176;C.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Poly-D-Lysine
	<ol>
		<li>To generate a 2 mg/mL poly D-lysine stock, add 10 mL of sterile H2O to 20 mg of poly D-lysine. Stock poly D-lysine should be stored at -80 &#176;C in 100 &#181;L aliquots. 
		NOTE: The following solutions should be prepared prior to dissection and maintained at 4 &#176;C until use.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>MgSO4&#160;Supplemented Dissection Solution
	<ol>
		<li>Add 300 &#181;L of stock MgSO4&#160;to 250 mL of dissection solution.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Trypsin Dissection Solution
	<ol>
		<li>Add 100 &#181;L of stock trypsin and 12 &#181;L of stock MgSO4&#160;to 10 mL of dissection solution.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Trypsin Inhibitor Solution 1
	<ol>
		<li>Add 164 &#181;L of stock trypsin inhibitor, 250 &#181;L of stock DNase 1 and 12 &#181;L of stock MgSO4&#160;to 10 mL of dissection solution.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Trypsin Inhibitor Solution 2
	<ol>
		<li>Add 1040 &#181;L of stock trypsin inhibitor, 750 &#181;L of stock DNase 1 and 12 &#181;L of stock MgSO4 to 10 mL of dissection solution.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>CaCl2&#160;supplemented dissection solution
	<ol>
		<li>Add 10 &#181;L of stock CaCl2&#160;and 25 &#181;L of stock MgSO4&#160;to 10 mL of dissection solution.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Poly D-Lysine Coated Culture Dishes
	<ol>
		<li>To coat culture dishes, dilute 100 &#181;L of stock poly D-lysine in 40 mL of sterile H2O. For 35 mm Nunc culture dishes, add 2 mL of diluted poly D-Lysine solution. For 4 well plates, add 300 &#181;L of diluted poly D-Lysine to each well.</li>
		<li>Let the poly D-lysine sit for 1 h before aspirating and washing each well with 4 mL or 600 &#181;L (for 35 mm culture dishes or 4 well plates, respectively) of sterile H2O. Then aspirate the H2O and let the dishes air dry for 1 h.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
</ol>
2. Brain Extraction and Isolation of Cerebellum
<ol>
	<li>Decapitate a 6&#8211;7-day old mouse pup using decapitation scissors. Perform the dissection of the brain in a sterile tissue culture hood.</li>
	<li>To remove the brain, grasp the head using a pair of forceps and cut through the skin toward the anterior of the head using microdissection scissors as demonstrated in&#160;Figure 1. Then cut through the skull bone using a new pair of scissors to minimize risk of contamination. Remove the skull covering the brain using forceps and tease out the brain using forceps or a spatula.
	<ol>
		<li>As needed, cut through the optic nerve to facilitate getting the brain out as a whole.</li>
	</ol>
	</li>
	<li>Place the brain in the dissection solution, which is supplemented with MgSO4. Keep the solution and the brain on ice.</li>
	<li>Following brain removal, under a dissection microscope, dissect out the cerebellum from the brain while still in MgSO4&#160;supplemented dissection solution, and remove the meninges using fine forceps. Turn the cerebellum to its ventral side and insure removal of the choroid plexus.</li>
	<li>Pool the cerebella into a 35-mm dish containing ~1 mL of MgSO4&#160;supplemented dissection solution.</li>
	<li>Chop the tissue into small pieces and transfer into a 50 mL tube containing 30 mL of MgSO4&#160;buffered dissection solution.</li>
</ol>
3. Mouse Cerebellar Granule Neuron Isolation and Culturing
<ol>
	<li>Centrifuge the 50 mL tube containing the chopped cerebral tissue for 5 min at 644 x g and 4 &#176;C.</li>
	<li>Remove the supernatant and add 10 mL of trypsin dissection solution. Then, shake the tube at high speed for 15 min at 37 &#176;C.</li>
	<li>Add 10 mL of trypsin inhibitor solution 1 to the tube and rock gently for 2 min.</li>
	<li>Centrifuge the tube for 5 min at 644 x g and 4 &#176;C.</li>
	<li>Remove the supernatant and add 2 mL of trypsin inhibitor solution 2, and then transfer to a 15 mL tube.</li>
	<li>Triturate the tissue in the 15 mL tube until the solution becomes murky. Then let settle for 5 min.</li>
	<li>Remove the clear supernatant and transfer the supernatant to a new tube containing 1 mL of CaCl2&#160;supplemented dissection solution.</li>
	<li>Add another mL of trypsin inhibitor solution 2 to the bottom of the tube containing the pellet from step 3.6. Triturate again and let settle for 5 min. Remove the supernatant and add it to the tube containing the supernatant from step 3.7 (That is a repeat of steps 3.6-3.7). Repeat this process until most of the tissue is mechanically dissociated.</li>
	<li>Add 0.3 mL of CaCl2&#160;supplemented dissection solution to the supernatant collection for every mL of supernatant.</li>
	<li>Mix the contents of the tube and then centrifuge for 5 min at 644 x g.</li>
	<li>Remove the supernatant and add 10 mL of fresh media to the pellet and mix.</li>
	<li>Cells may then be counted and diluted to a concentration of 1.5 x 106&#160;cells/mL. Please note that in general 10 million cells are expected from each dissected brain, dependent on trypsinization time and efficiency of dissection. Plate cells on previously made poly D-lysine plates. For 4-well plates, plate 0.5 mL, giving 7.5 x 105&#160;cells per well. For 35-mm dishes, plate 4 mL, giving 6 x 106&#160;cells per plate.</li>
	<li>After 24 h, add cytosine-&#946;-arabino furanoside (AraC) to the plates to reduce glial contamination. For each mL of media 0.5 &#181;L of 20 mM AraC is required. Addition of AraC does not require a media change. If cells are to be maintained for 7-8 days, repeat this treatment on day 3.</li>
	<li>Maintain cultures in a 5% CO2&#160;incubator at 37 &#176;C and feed with 100 &#181;L of 100 mM glucose added to the culture for every 2 mL of media every 2 days past 5 days. A complete media change is not required.</li>
</ol>
4. Modeling Neuronal Injury
<ol>
	<li>To induce N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) induced neuronal excitotoxicity, following 7 days&#160;in vitro, treat CGNs with 100 &#181;M NMDA and 10 &#181;M glycine for 1 h. Replace all the medium with conditioned medium from parallel cultures with no treatment. This concentration results in 50% cell death at 24 h post treatment (Figure 2, 3). Mitochondrial fragmentation is evident at 6-8 h post treatment.</li>
</ol>

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Source: Laaper, M. et al., <a href="https://app.jove.com/v/55871">Modeling Neuronal Death and Degeneration in Mouse Primary Cerebellar Granule Neurons.</a>&#160;J. Vis. Exp. (2017).
This video demonstrates the generation of a neuronal injury model in mouse primary cerebellar granule neurons. It outlines the steps involved in inducing neuronal injury using NMDA, an excitatory neurotransmitter receptor agonist, and glycine, a co-agonist. NMDA and glycine bind to specific neuronal receptors, causing their overstimulation and resulting in a massive intracellular calcium influx, which leads to neuronal cell damage and death.

<img alt="Figure 1" src="/files/ftp_upload/22970/22970_Figure1.jpg" /> 
Figure 1: Removal of mouse brain and dissection of cerebellum.&#160;(A) To extract the brain of a 6-7 day old mouse, using a pair of forceps, grasp the head and cut the skin anteriorly along the dotted lines using a pair of microdissection scissors. Be careful to cut only the skin and connective tissue, too deep an incision may puncture the skull and damage the brain. These three incisions, straight along the midline, and two curving laterally, allow for the skin to be pushed back revealing the skull. Once exposed, the skull can be penetrated with the tip of the scissors, and cut anteriorly. Great care must be taken not to damage the cerebellum to facilitate identification and removal of meninges. Once cut, forceps may be used to peel back the skull, exposing the brain which may then be teased out into cool dissection solution using a pair of forceps or spatula. In order to remove the brain, the optic nerve may need to be severed. (B) Once removed from the skull, the meninges should be removed from the cerebellum using a pair of fine tipped forceps. (C) Using a pair of fine tipped forceps, the cerebellum is dissected from the remaining tissue and inspected to ensure complete removal of the meninges.&#160;
<img alt="Figure 2" src="/files/ftp_upload/22970/22970_Figure2.jpg" /> 
Figure 2: Modeling neuronal injury in cerebellar granule neurons.&#160;Isolated cerebella from day 6-7 mice are dissociated into single cells following the procedure presented in part 3. Following dissociation, cells are counted and resuspended in a volume of culture media to generate 1.5 x 106&#160;cells/mL.For 35 mm dishes, 4 mL are plated, giving 6 x 106&#160;cells per plate. For imaging slides, 0.5 mL is plated, giving 7.5 x 105&#160;cells/well. CGNs can then be transduced with lentivirus or infected with adenovirus. Using adenovirus on the day of plating (0 days&#160;in vitro&#160;(DIV)) gives greater than 90% transfection efficiency and allows for the study of neuronal injury through oxidative stress and DNA damage. The addition of 10 &#181;M camptothecin (CPT) will induce DNA damage, while 75-100 &#181;M hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) will induce oxidative stress. The concentration of H2O2&#160;must be optimized to induce 50% cell death after 24h. Infecting with adenoviruses at 5 DIV gives a lower transduction efficiency of less than 10%. At 7 DIV when NMDA receptors are enriched in the culture, Neurons can be treated with 100 &#181;M NMDA and 10 &#181;M glycine to induce excitotoxicity. This is ideal for subsequent imaging analysis or tracing a single neuron. Finally, transducing with lentivirus at 0 DIV, followed by treating with 100 &#181;M NMDA and 10 &#181;M glycine at 7 DIV, gives a sufficiently high transduction efficiency (&#62;80%) to allow for biochemical analysis of the culture, including ChIP sequencing, examining protein expression, and performing live/dead assays.
<img alt="Figure 3" src="/files/ftp_upload/22970/22970_Figure3.jpg" /> 
Figure 3: Cerebellar granule neurons.&#160;(A) Neurons were transduced with lentiviruses for RFP at an MOI of 3 at the time of plating, and fixed and stained at 7 days in vitro. Colocalization of RFP signal, MAP2, and Hoechst is shown to demonstrate healthy neurons that are fully transduced by lentiviruses. (B) The images represent live dead assay analyses of neurons infected with different MOI, to measure toxicity. CGNs infected with adenovirus expressing LacZ&#160;at an MOI between 25 and 50 allows for maximal efficiency while maintaining minimal toxicity. Less than a 1% difference in cell survival compared to control is seen when infecting at this MOI. (C) Hoechst staining of control CGNs and CGNs treated with NMDA to induce cell death. Note the formation of pyknotic nuclei with NMDA treatment. This is indicative of cell death, and can be seen in approximately 50% of the culture 24 h after treatment with 100 &#181;M NMDA and 10 &#181;M Glycine.

1. Experimental Preparation
NOTE: The following stock solutions can be prepared and maintained until use.

	Dissection Solution
	
		Dissolve 3.62 g of ...

Begin with a culture of mouse primary cerebellar granule neurons.
Add high concentrations of N-methyl-D-aspartate, or NMDA, an excitatory neurotransmitter receptor agonist, and glycine, a co-agonist. Incubate the culture.
NMDA and glycine bind to their respective sites on the NMDA receptors, leading to overstimulation and causing a massive influx of calcium ions.
The increased intracellular calcium activates calcium-dependent phospholipases, which degrade cell membrane phospholipids, resulting in membrane damage.
Additionally, intracellular calcium activates proteases that degrade cellular proteins.
The elevated calcium levels also induce mitochondrial stress and fragmentation, leading to the release of reactive oxygen species, or ROS, and causing oxidative stress.
Furthermore, intracellular calcium activates DNases, which, together with ROS, cause DNA damage, ultimately resulting in neuronal death.
Replace the medium with fresh medium without NMDA and glycine to halt the signaling cascade.
The NMDA-induced neuronal injury model is ready for further analysis.

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Modeling Neuronal Injury in Mouse Primary Cerebellar Granule Neurons