The Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Immunology and Infection

Economical and Efficient Protocol for Isolating and Culturing Bone Marrow-derived Dendritic Cells from Mice

Huiqin Tang^*1, Hui Xie^*1, Zhun Wang¹, Shuanghe Peng², Wenli Ni¹, Linpei Guo³

¹Tianjin Institute of Urology, The Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, ²Department of Pathology, The Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, ³Department of Urology, The Affiliated Wuxi No.2 People’s Hospital of Nanjing Medical University

Here, we present an economical and efficient method to isolate and generate high-purity bone marrow-derived dendritic cells from mice after 7 days of culture with 10 ng/mL GM-CSF/IL-4.

Cancer Research

Establishing a Murine Superficial Bladder Cancer Model via an Intravesical Cell Administration Technique

Zhe Zhang^1,2, Zhouliang Wu^1,2, Chong Shen^1,2, Zhiheng Liu², Hailong Hu^1,2

¹Department of Urology, The Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, ²Tianjin Key Laboratory of Urology, Tianjin Institute of Urology

This protocol describes a unique method for constructing an orthotopic model of superficial bladder cancer.