Name: Video: Retinal Cup Extraction from Mouse: A Surgical Procedure to Obtain Intact Retinal Cup from Mouse Eye - Concept
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Description: 2.4K Views. Source: Jiang, K. et al. Determination of Mitochondrial Respiration and Glycolysis in Ex Vivo Retinal Tissue Samples. J. Vis. Exp (2021) This video describes a protocol to isolate the retinal cup without the outer covering layers from the eyeball of a mouse. The extracted retinal tissue can help study various metabolic pathways occurring in the retinal cells.

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1. Retinal cup dissection 
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	<li>Euthanize a mouse by CO2&#160;asphyxiation following institutional guidelines on euthanasia. 
	NOTE: Do not leave the animal in a CO2&#160;chamber longer than the time needed for euthanasia.</li>
	<li>Enucleate eyes and place into ice-old 1x PBS buffer in a petri-dish and then place it under a dissection microscope.</li>
	<li>Carefully remove, by cutting with microscissors, the extra rectus muscles attached outside the eyeball and cut off the optic nerve.</li>
	<li>Use a 30 G needle to punch a hole at the edge of the cornea (limbus); this serves as the insertion site for the microscissors. Then, use a fine dissection microscissors to make a circular cut along the edge of the cornea, separating it from the posterior eye cup.</li>
	<li>Use sharp dissection forceps to remove the cornea, lens, and the vitreous humor away from the eye cup.</li>
	<li>Use fine dissection microscissors to make several small cuts on the scleral layer at the rim of eye cup. Avoid cutting the retina layer. Use two sharp dissection forceps to hold on to the scleral tissue at each side of the cut and very carefully pull on the scleral layer to remove it from the neural retina. Repeat this around the eye cup until all sclera is removed and an intact retinal cup is obtained.</li>
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retinal cup extraction from mouse: a surgical procedure to obtain intact retinal cup from mouse eye

Source: Jiang, K. et al. <a href="https://www.jove.com/v/62914">Determination of Mitochondrial Respiration and Glycolysis in Ex Vivo Retinal Tissue Samples.</a> J. Vis. Exp (2021)
This video describes a protocol to isolate the retinal cup without the outer covering layers from the eyeball of a mouse. The extracted retinal tissue can help study various metabolic pathways occurring in the retinal cells.

Retinal Cup Extraction from Mouse: A Surgical Procedure to Obtain Intact Retinal Cup from Mouse Eye

Source: Jiang, K. et al. Determination of Mitochondrial Respiration and Glycolysis in Ex Vivo Retinal Tissue Samples. J. Vis. Exp (2021)
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The murine eye is covered by three layers: the outermost fibrous sclera, the middle choroid coat, and the innermost retina. The cup-shaped cavity between the retina and eye lens contains vitreous humor &#8212; a gelatinous medium that helps transmit light to the retina.&#160; In turn, the retina passes the resulting visual information via the optic nerve to the brain.
To extract the retinal cup, take a euthanized mouse and enucleate its eye. Submerge the eye in a Petri dish containing an appropriate ice-cold buffer to prevent tissue degradation. Place the Petri dish under a dissection microscope.
Snip off the remnants of the optic nerve from the base of the eyeball. Make a small incision at the junction of the retina and the cornea&#160; &#8212; a transparent covering around the eye lens. Using this opening, make a complete circular cut along the retina-cornea junction to detach the lens and the vitreous humor gel from the eye.
Remove the lens and vitreous humor to obtain a semi-circular eye cup containing the retina lined by choroid and sclera. Create multiple superficial cuts throughout the scleral portion of the eye cup. Use these cuts to separate the outer eye layers for obtaining an intact retinal cup for downstream applications.

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2.4K Views. Source: Jiang, K. et al. Determination of Mitochondrial Respiration and Glycolysis in Ex Vivo Retinal Tissue Samples. J. Vis. Exp (2021) This video describes a protocol to isolate the retinal cup without the outer covering layers from the eyeball of a mouse. The extracted retinal tissue can help study various metabolic pathways occurring in the retinal cells. 

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Retinal Cup Extraction from Mouse: A Surgical Procedure to Obtain Intact Retinal Cup from Mouse Eye

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