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Biology

Two Types of Assays for Detecting Frog Sperm Chemoattraction
Lindsey A. Burnett 1, Nathan Tholl 2, Douglas E. Chandler 2
1Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University

Eggs and the extracellular coatings around eggs frequently release peptides, proteins and small molecules that communicate with sperm to guide them to the egg thereby promoting fertilization. Using frog sperm we describe and compare two classes of assays used to detect sperm chemoattraction – sperm accumulation assays and sperm tracking assays.

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Neuroscience

Preparation of Drosophila Central Neurons for in situ Patch Clamping
Stefanie Ryglewski 1, Carsten Duch 1
1School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University

In situ patch clamp recordings are used for electrophysiological characterization of neurons in intact circuitry. In the Drosophila genetic model patch clamping is difficult because the CNS is small and surrounded by a robust sheath. This article describes the procedure to remove the sheath and clean neurons for subsequent patch clamp recordings.

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Bioengineering

High efficiency, Site-specific Transfection of Adherent Cells with siRNA Using Microelectrode Arrays (MEA)
Chetan Patel 1, Jit Muthuswamy 1
1School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University

The article details the protocol for site-specific transfection of scrambled sequence of siRNA in an adherent mammalian cell culture using a microelectrode array (MEA).

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Neuroscience

RNAi-mediated Double Gene Knockdown and Gustatory Perception Measurement in Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
Ying Wang 1, Nicholas Baker 1, Gro V. Amdam 1,2
1School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University , 2Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology, and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences

In this protocol, we describe two strategies that simultaneously suppress two genes (double gene knockdown) in honey bees. Then we present how to use the proboscis extension response (PER) assay to study the effect of double gene knockdown on honey bee gustatory perception.

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Biology

Efficient Agroinfiltration of Plants for High-level Transient Expression of Recombinant Proteins
Kahlin Leuzinger *1, Matthew Dent *1, Jonathan Hurtado 1, Jake Stahnke 1, Huafang Lai 1, Xiaohong Zhou 1, Qiang Chen 1
1The College of Technology and Innovation, Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University

Plants offer a novel system for the production of pharmaceutical proteins on a commercial scale that is more scalable, cost-efficient and safe than current expression paradigms. In this study, we report a simple and convenient, yet scalable approach to introduce target-gene containing Agrobacterium tumefaciens into plants for protein transient expression.

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Biology

Obtaining Specimens with Slowed, Accelerated and Reversed Aging in the Honey Bee Model
Daniel Münch 1, Nicholas Baker 2, Erik M.K. Rasmussen 1, Ashish K. Shah 1, Claus D. Kreibich 1, Lars E. Heidem 1, Gro V. Amdam 1,2
1Department of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University

In honey bee workers, aging depends on social behaviors rather than on chronological age. Here we show how worker-types with very different aging patterns can be obtained and analyzed for cellular senescence.

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Immunology and Infection

In Vivo Investigation of Antimicrobial Blue Light Therapy for Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Burn Infections Using Bioluminescence Imaging
Yucheng Wang 1,2,3, Olivia D. Harrington 1, Ying Wang 1, Clinton K. Murray 4, Michael R. Hamblin 1, Tianhong Dai 1
1Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 2Department of Medical Oncology, Beijing Institute of Translational Medicine, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 3Cancer Center, Aviation General Hospital, Beijing, 4Infectious Disease Service, Brooke Army Medical Center

Infections caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial strains have emerged as a serious threat to public health, necessitating the development of alternative therapeutics. We present a protocol to evaluate the effectiveness of antimicrobial blue light (aBL) therapy for MDR Acinetobacter baumannii infections in mouse burns by using bioluminescence imaging.

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Cancer Research

A Comprehensive Procedure to Evaluate the In Vitro Performance of the Putative Hemangioblastoma Neovascularization Using the Spheroid Sprouting Assay
Ying Wang 1, DanQi Chen 1, MingYu Chen 1, KaiYuan Ji 1, DeXuan Ma 1, LiangFu Zhou 1
1Department of Neurosurgery, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University

This paper presents a comprehensive procedure to evaluate in vitro whether classic tumor angiogenesis exists in hemangioblastomas (HBs) and its role in HBs. The results highlight the complexity of HB-neovascularization and suggest that this common form of angiogenesis is only a complementary mechanism in the HB-neovascularization.

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Engineering

Radio Frequency Magnetron Sputtering of GdBa2Cu3O7δ/ La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 Quasi-bilayer Films on SrTiO3 (STO) Single-crystal Substrates
Ying Wang 1,2, Zhen Li 1,2, YongSheng Liu 1, Yijie Li 2, Linfei Liu 2, Da Xu 2, Xiaojing Luo 1, Tian Gao 1,3, Yanyan Zhu 1,4, Luozeng Zhou 3, Jianming Xu 3
1Department of Physics, Mathematics, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Materials Protection and Advanced Materials in Electric Power, Shanghai University of Electric Power, 2Key Laboratory of Artificial Structure and Quantum Control, Ministry of Education, Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 3Shanghai Institute of Space Power-sources, 4Shanghai Key Laboratory of High Temperature Superconductors, Shanghai University

Here, we present a protocol to grow LSMO nanoparticles and (Gd) BCO films on (001) SrTiO3 (STO) single-crystal substrates by radio frequency (RF)-sputtering.

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Immunology and Infection

Human Serum Anti-aquaporin-4 Immunoglobulin G Detection by Cell-based Assay
Caiyun Liu 1, Mingqin Zhu 1, Ying Wang 1
1Department of Neurology and Neuroscience Center, The First Hospital of Jilin University

Cell-based assay is a widely used method to detect serum anti-aquaporin-4 immunoglobulin G. This method could be applied to clinical diagnosis and scientific researches of neuromyelitis optical spectrum disorders.

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Genetics

A Bioinformatics Pipeline to Accurately and Efficiently Analyze the MicroRNA Transcriptomes in Plants
Ying Wang *1,2, Zheng Kuang *1,2, Lei Li 2, Xiaozeng Yang 1
1Beijing Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Beijing Agro-Biotechnology Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, 2State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences and School of Life Sciences, Peking University

A bioinformatics pipeline, namely miRDeep-P2 (miRDP2 for short), with updated plant miRNA criteria and an overhauled algorithm, could accurately and efficiently analyze microRNA transcriptomes in plants, especially for species with complex and large genomes.

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Immunology and Infection

Lentiviral CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Genome Editing for the Study of Hematopoietic Cells in Disease Models
Soichi Sano 1, Ying Wang 1, Megan A. Evans 1, Yoshimitsu Yura 1, Miho Sano 1, Hayato Ogawa 1, Keita Horitani 1, Heather Doviak 1, Kenneth Walsh 1
1Hematovascular Biology Center, Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia School of Medicine

Described are protocols for the highly efficient genome editing of murine hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC) by the CRISPR/Cas9 system to rapidly develop mouse model systems with hematopoietic system-specific gene modifications.

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JoVE Core

Bone Marrow Transplantation Procedures in Mice to Study Clonal Hematopoiesis
Eunbee Park 1, Megan A. Evans 4, Heather Doviak 4, Keita Horitani 4, Hayato Ogawa 4, Yoshimitsu Yura 4, Ying Wang 2, Soichi Sano 3,4, Kenneth Walsh 1,4
1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, 2Department of Cardiology, Xinqiao Hospital, Army Medical University, 3Department of Cardiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, 4Hematovascular Biology Center, Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Virginia School of Medicine

We describe three methods of bone marrow transplantation (BMT): BMT with total-body irradiation, BMT with shielded irradiation, and BMT method with no pre-conditioning (adoptive BMT) for the study of clonal hematopoiesis in mouse models.

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Bioengineering

Fabricating Highly Open Porous Microspheres (HOPMs) via Microfluidic Technology
Sheng-Chang Luo 1,2, Ying Wang 3, Ranjith Kumar Kankala 1,2, Yu Shrike Zhang 4, Ai-Zheng Chen 1,2
1Institute of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Huaqiao University, 2Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Biochemical Technology, Huaqiao University, 3Affiliated Dongguan Hospital, Southern Medical University, 4Division of Engineering in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

The present protocol describes the fabrication of poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid)-based highly open porous microspheres (HOPMs) via the single-emulsion formulation based facile microfluidic technology. These microspheres have potential applications in tissue engineering and drug screening.

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Neuroscience

Using a Bipolar Electrode to Create a Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Mouse Model by Electrical Kindling of the Amygdala
Yongchang Lu *1,2, Yang Dai *1,2, Siqi Ou 1,2, Yujing Miao 1, Ying Wang 1,2, Quanlei Liu 1,2, Yihe Wang 1,2, Penghu Wei 1,2, Yongzhi Shan 1,2, Guoguang Zhao 1,2,3
1Department of Neurosurgery, Xuanwu Hospital Capital Medical University, 2China Clinical Research Center for Epilepsy Capital Medical University, 3China Beijing Municipal Geriatric Medical Research Center

The amygdala plays a key role in temporal lobe epilepsy, which originates in and propagates from this structure. This article provides a detailed description of the fabrication of deep brain electrodes with both recording and stimulating functions. It introduces a model of medial temporal lobe epilepsy originating from the amygdala.

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