The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University
2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE
Biology
Assessing Insulin Clearance in Mice via In Situ Liver Perfusion
Zhenzhen Fu *1, Yishu Wang *1, Lijuan Chen 1, Zhengping Hou 1, Yingyun Gong 1, Hongwen Zhou 1
1Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University
Hepatic insulin clearance is critical for regulating glucose homeostasis. This article describes a user-friendly hepatic perfusion procedure for directly evaluating the hepatic insulin clearance rate in situ in mice.
Neuroscience
Assessing Microglial Phagocytosis of Myelin Debris in vitro Under Repeated Magnetic Stimulation
Chenyuan Zhai 1, Jili Cai 2, Mei Du 3, Yuchen Fei 4, Qi Wu 5
1Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The Affiliated Suzhou Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 2Rehabilitation Medicine Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 3Department of Children's Rehabilitation, Linyi People's Hospital, 4Department of Endocrinology, People's Hospital of Dongxihu District, 5Department of Rehabilitation, Hengyang Medical School, The First Affiliated Hospital, University of South China
The present protocol has been devised to assess the effect of repetitive magnetic stimulation on microglia's ability to phagocytose myelin debris. An in vitro microglia and myelin debris co-culture system has been established to do so.