To begin, carefully incise the skin of the sacrificed mouse, starting from the skull's opening and extending towards the frontal area. Using scissors, delicately lift and remove the skull without damaging the leptomeninges, collecting the entire brain. Submerge the whole brain in the washing buffer, and gently flush it to remove surface blood.
Transfer the brain into a sterile Petri dish without chopping. Then, under a microscope, use fine-point tweezers to extract the leptomeninges from the brain's surface. Using sterile microscissors, cut the leptomeninges tissue into fragments.
Repair the digestive enzyme mix using the given components. Add 10 milliliters of mix to the fragments and incubate at 37 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes. Gently agitate to detach the fragments from the bottom of the tube.
Then, add 10 milliliters of stopping buffer. Centrifuge the suspension at 300 g for five minutes at four degrees Celsius. And using a pipette, carefully remove the supernatant.
Add 10 milliliters of cold PBS, and filter any clumps through a 70 micron strainer into a sterile 50 milliliter tube. Plate 10 to the fifth cells per square centimeter into a fibronectin-coated T25 flask with five milliliters of culture medium, and incubate at 37 degrees Celsius with 5%carbon dioxide for 24 hours. After incubation, replace the medium with a fresh medium to eliminate non-attached cells.
