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University of Yamanashi School of Medicine

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Neuroscience

Observation of the Ciliary Movement of Choroid Plexus Epithelial Cells Ex Vivo

Takafumi Inoue¹, Keishi Narita², Yuta Nonami¹, Hideki Nakamura¹, Sen Takeda²

¹Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, ²Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine & Engineering, University of Yamanashi

In this study, a detailed light microscopic technique was optimized for real-time observation and analysis of the motion of CPEC cilia ex vivo together with an electron microscopic method for ultrastructural analysis.

Biochemistry

Sample Preparation for Probe Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry

Sen Takeda¹, Kentaro Yoshimura¹, Hiroshi Tanihata²

¹Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Yamanashi School of Medicine, ²Shimadzu Corporation

This article introduces sample preparation methods for a unique real-time analytical method based on the ambient mass spectrometry. This method lets us perform real-time analysis of the biological molecules in vivo without any special pretreatments.