Transillumination-Assisted Dissection of Specific Stages of the Mouse Seminiferous Epithelial Cycle for Downstream Immunostaining AnalysesJuho-Antti Mäkelä 1, Sheyla Cisneros-Montalvo 1, Tiina Lehtiniemi 1, Opeyemi Olotu 1, Hue M. La 3,4, Jorma Toppari 1,2, Robin M. Hobbs 3,4, Martti Parvinen 1, Noora Kotaja 1
1Institute of Biomedicine, Integrative Physiology and Pharmacology Unit, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 2Department of Pediatrics, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland, 3Centre for Reproductive Health, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, VIC 3168, Australia, 4Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia
This protocol describes transillumination-assisted microdissection of segments of adult mouse seminiferous tubules representing specific stages of seminiferous epithelial cycle, and cell types therein, and subsequent immunostaining of squash preparations and intact tubule segments.
