Name: an approach to enhance alignment and myelination of dorsal root ganglion neurons
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فإن الكتاب أود أن أشكر اريك فاسكو لمساعدته في إعداد ركائز PDMS، الدكتور Shiyong وانغ في مختبر الدكتور مرسى ماتا في جامعة ميشيغان للحصول على اقتراحات مفيدة والتدريب من العزلة DRG، والدكتور مارك Tuszynski والدكتور دبليو ماري كامبانا في جامعة كاليفورنيا في سان دييغو للحصول على اقتراحات مفيدة وبروتوكول لعزل SC. وأيد هذه الدراسة في جزء من مؤسسة العلوم الوطنية (CBET 0941055 وCBET 1510895)، والمعهد الوطني للصحة (R21CA176854، R01GM089866، وR01EB014986).

وقد وافق جميع الإجراءات لعزل الخلايا عن طريق لجنة رعاية واستخدام الحيوان المؤسسي في جامعة ولاية ميشيغان. 1. إعداد امتدت قبل سطح متباين الخواص <ol style=";text-align:right;direction:rtl"><li style=";text-align:right;direction:rtl"> خلط 10: حل 1 من قاعدة وكيل علاج ويصب الخليط في صحن ز?...

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للحث على محاذاة محوار على سطح امتدت مسبقا، هناك نوعان من الخطوات الحاسمة: 1) يجب أن يكون غشاء PDMS مسطحة وسمك متجانس. و2) يجب إزالة الخلايا الدبقية من DRG. بعد خلط PDMS وcrosslinker وعلاج في الفرن، يجب أن تبقى جل PDMS crosslinked على قمة مقاعد البدلاء شقة والتعامل معها بعناية لتجنب أي إمال?...

في الإصابات العصبية، وغالبا ما يمنعون جذوعها الداني والقاصي العصبية من إعادة تنظيم مباشرة من كراسات العصبية نظرا لموقع الآفة 1-2. عادة، تتكون مساحات محور عصبي حزم أمر غاية والانحياز من المحاور، والتي تشكل شبكات معقدة من الاتصال. ومع ذلك، وتجديد الأعصاب هو عملية الفوضى بسبب سوء التنظيم محور عصبي محاذاة 3-4. لذلك، لتوليد عدد كاف من تجديد المحاور التي ردم موقع الآفة، فمن الضروري للحث على محاذاة محور عصبي منظمة تنظيما جيدا. بالإضافة إلى ذلك، إزالة الميالين يصاحب الإصابات العصبية بسبب موت الخلايا myelinating في موقع الإصابة. منذ إزالة الميالين يضعف بشدة قدرة موصلة للبقاء محاور وعلاجات تستهدف إزالة الميالين أو تشجيع عودة الميالين هامة للانتعاش وظيفية بعد إصابة العصب 5. وبالتالي فإن الهدف من هذا البروتوكول هو لتوضيح نهج الهندسية التي تعالج هاتين المسألتينتجديد الأعصاب. وقد تم تطبيق تباين السطح، الذي يعرف بأنه الفرق، عند قياسها على طول محاور مختلفة، في الخصائص الفيزيائية أو الميكانيكية مادة، والتأثير على محاذاة الخلية، والنمو، والهجرة 6-7. بالإضافة إلى طبوغرافية، هناك طرق أخرى للحث على تباين. في وقت سابق، ونحن التحقيق تباين سطح الناجم عن ميكانيكي ثابت قبل تمتد من بولي ميثيل-siloxane (PDMS) الغشاء. نظرية &quot;سوبر تشوه صغير المفروض على كبير&quot; توقعت أن تصلب فعالة الخلايا تستشعر في الاتجاه امتدت يختلف عن اتجاه عمودي، وليس هذا الاختلاف في صلابة فعالة يرجع إلى السطح تباين 8. الخلايا الجذعية الوسيطة (اللجان الدائمة) مثقف على غشاء PDMS امتدت قبل قادرة على الشعور تباين عن طريق سحب بنشاط السطح ونتيجة لذلك، محاذاة في الاتجاه امتدت قبل 9. وبالمثل، وهو ع سطح متباينإيسينج من سطح امتدت قبل ميكانيكي يؤثر على المحاذاة، فضلا عن النمو وتكون الميالين من عقدة الجذر الظهري (DRG) محاور 10. نحن هنا نقدم بروتوكول لإحداث تباين السطح على ساكنة امتدت ما قبل الركيزة PDMS لتعزيز تجديد أكسون 10. للحصول محاذاة المحور، ملامح الطوبوغرافية مع أنماط المطلوب، ذكرت لتوفير التوجيه الاتصال من خلال الألياف وقنوات 6،11-12 الانحياز، وقد تجلت لتسهيل محور عصبي محاذاة 11،13. ومع ذلك، ذكرت تقنيات لإحداث المواءمة محور عصبي من خلال الميزات الطوبوغرافية، مثل الألياف والقنوات والزخرفة، لم يتمكنوا من إطالة وزيادة سماكة من المحاور. في المقابل، تدريجيا الميكانيكية تمتد أدت إلى محاذاة محور عصبي في الاتجاه تمتد مع محاور أطول وأكثر سمكا التي زادت مع حجم امتداد 14. ومع ذلك، يتضمن جهاز بمحرك في الجسم الحي ليسعمليا. في المقابل، ثابت قبل امتدت-تباين الناجم أقل تعقيدا ويمكن إدراجها بسهولة أكبر إلى تصاميم سقالة المستقبلية للتطبيقات في الجسم الحي. في هذا البروتوكول، ويستخدم نظام زراعة الخلايا امتدت قبل ساكنة للحث على تباين السطح دون ملامح الطوبوغرافية. ويتكون نظام ثقافة امتدت مسبقا من غشاء PDMS، إطار لمط ومرحلة تمتد، وعندها يتم إصلاح غشاء على الإطار ويتم تطبيق قوته تمتد محددة سلفا على مرحلة تمتد. ويتم رصد الخلايا العصبية DRG المعزولة حديثا مثقف على سطح امتدت قبل لمدة تصل إلى 21 يوما للمحاذاة محور عصبي وسمك. وفي وقت لاحق، خلايا شوان (المنبوذة) شارك في تربيتها مع ومراقبتها لتكون الميالين المحاور الانحياز. من خلال دمج ما قبل امتداد الناجم عن تباين سطح تمكنا من تعزيز خلية الانحياز التمايز ومحور عصبي الانحياز نمو اللجان الدائمة والخلايا العصبية DRG 9-10، على التوالي.

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			<td>Polydimethylsiloxane &#65288;PDMS)</td>
			<td>Dow Corning</td>
			<td>SYLGARD 184</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td>Neurobasal Medium 1X</td>
			<td>GibcoBRL</td>
			<td>21103-049</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>B27 Supplement 50X</td>
			<td>GibcoBRL</td>
			<td>17504-044</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Glutamax-I 100X</td>
			<td>GibcoBRL</td>
			<td>35050-061</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Albumax-I</td>
			<td>GibcoBRL</td>
			<td>11020-021</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Nerve Growth Factor-7S</td>
			<td>Invitrogen</td>
			<td>13290-010</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Penicillin-streptomycin</td>
			<td>GibcoBRL</td>
			<td>15140-122</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>0.05% Trypsin-EDTA/1mM EDTA</td>
			<td>GibcoBRL</td>
			<td>25300-054</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Poly-L-Lysine</td>
			<td>Trevigen</td>
			<td><a href="http://www.trevigen.com/item/2/7/64/220/Cultrex_PolyLLysine/">3438-100-01</a></td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Poly-D-Lysine</td>
			<td>Sigma</td>
			<td>p-6407</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Fluoro-2 deoxy-uridine</td>
			<td>Sigma</td>
			<td>F0503</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Uridine</td>
			<td>Sigma</td>
			<td>U3003</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Hank&#8217;s Balanced Salt Solution (HBSS)</td>
			<td>Invitrogen</td>
			<td>14170-112</td>
			<td>Isolation Buffer</td>
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		<tr>
			<td>Type I Collagenase</td>
			<td>Worthington</td>
			<td>LS004196</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>DMEM</td>
			<td>Gibco</td>
			<td>11885</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Heat inactivated Fetal Bovine Serum</td>
			<td>Hyclone</td>
			<td>SH30080.03</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>BPE</td>
			<td>Clonetics</td>
			<td>CC-4009</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Forskolin</td>
			<td>Calbiochem</td>
			<td>344270</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Silicone chamber</td>
			<td>Greiner bio-one</td>
			<td>FlexiPERM ConA</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Plasma cleaning/etching system</td>
			<td>March Instruments</td>
			<td>PX-250</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Anti-Thy 1.1 antibody</td>
			<td>Sigma- Aldrich</td>
			<td>M7898</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Rabbit Complement</td>
			<td>Sigma- Aldrich</td>
			<td>S-7764</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Standard growth medium</td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
			<td>For 500 ml Neurobasal Medium 1X, add 10 ml of B-27 50X, 5 ml of Glutamax-I 100X,</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
			<td>2.5 ml of Penicillin/Streptomycin (Penn/Strep), 1 ml of Albumax-I, and 1 &#956;l of NGF-- 7S (50 ug/ml).</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>FDU and Uridine stock solution</td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
			<td>FDU 100mg in 10ml of ddw (10mg/ml), filter in the hood and divided in 500ul aliquots and store at -20 &#186;C.</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
			<td>Uridine 5g in 166.7ml of ddw (33mg/ml), filter in hood, divide in 200ul aliquots and store at -20 &#186;C.</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
			<td>Take 61.5ul of FDU (10mg/ml) and 20.5ul of Uridine(33mg/ml), and add 4918ul of ddw to a final stock concentration,</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
			<td></td>
			<td>then divide in 1 ml aliquots and store at -20 &#186;C.</td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
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an approach to enhance alignment and myelination of dorsal root ganglion neurons

Axon regeneration is a chaotic process due largely to unorganized axon alignment. Therefore, in order for a sufficient number of regenerated axons to bridge the lesion site, properly organized axonal alignment is required. Since demyelination after nerve injury strongly impairs the conductive capacity of surviving axons, remyelination is critical for successful functioning of regenerated nerves. Previously, we demonstrated that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) aligned on a pre-stretch induced anisotropic surface because the cells can sense a larger effective stiffness in the stretched direction than in the perpendicular direction. We also showed that an anisotropic surface arising from a mechanical pre-stretched surface similarly affects alignment, as well as growth and myelination of axons. Here, we provide a detailed protocol for preparing a pre-stretched anisotropic surface, the isolation and culture of dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons on a pre-stretched surface, and show the myelination behavior of a co-culture of DRG neurons with Schwann cells (SCs) on a pre-stretched surface.

النظام امتدت ما قبل زراعة الخلايا الترويج DRG محوار محاذاة 10. ومثقف الخلايا العصبية DRG على السطوح قبل امتدت وغير المتمدد لمدة 12 يوما. كانت ملطخة محاور لβ-III تويولين لإثبات اتساقها الشكل 2 يقارن التوجه محور عصبي على ركائز PDMS قبل امتدت وغي?...

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An Approach to Enhance Alignment and Myelination of Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons

This protocol describes the isolation of dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons isolated from rats and the culture of DRG neurons on a static pre-stretched cell culture system to enhance axon alignment, with subsequent co-culture of Schwann Cells (SCs) to promote myelination.

مدخل لتعزيز التوافق وتكون الميالين في ظهري الجذر العقدة العصبية

Axon regeneration is a chaotic process due largely to unorganized axon alignment. Therefore, in order for a sufficient number of regenerated axons to ...

The overall goal of this protocol is to enhance axon alignment and myelination of dorsal root ganglion neurons using a static, pre-stretched cell culture system. This method can help answer key question in the nerve tissue engineering field, such as axon alignment and thickness growth. The main advantage of this technique is that this pre-stretched method not only enhances axon alignment but also promotes myelination.To begin this procedure, pour the mixture of base and curing agent into a tissue culture dish. Keep the gel mixture under vacuum for 20 minutes to remove air bubbles. Then place the gel mixture in the oven at 60 degrees Celsius for overnight curing.After the PDMS membrane has cured, treat the surface with oxygen plasma in the plasma cleaning and etching system for three minutes. Subsequently, cut a piece of rectangular membrane from the dish. Fix it onto a stretching frame with the oxygen-treated side facing up.Then place the frame on a stretching stage and evenly stretch it by turning the knob on the stage until it reaches 10%elongation in the longer axis. Next, fix the stretch by tightening the screws on the frame. After that, remove the frame from the stage.Ensure the membrane surface is dry and free of dust before placing a silicone chamber onto the membrane. Allow the sticky side of the chamber to attach tightly to the membrane. Then sterilize the surface with UV for 10 minutes.Afterward, add one milliliter of PLL to the PDMS surface in the chamber within six hours of plasma treatment. Next, incubate it for two hours at 37 degrees Celsius prior to seeding the DRG neurons to enhance cell attachment. In this step, prepare the standard grow medium for the DRG neurons.Prior to isolation, autoclave the isolation equipment and filter reagents. Add five milliliters of isolation buffer into one well of a six-well plate and place the plate on ice. Then prepare 10 milliliters of dissociation medium by adding one milliliter of collagenase A to nine milliliters of 0.05%Trypsin-EDTA.Filter the solution with a 0.22 micrometer filter and place it on ice. Afterward, sacrifice 10 to 12 five to seven days old SD rats and cut away the skin overlying the spinal cord from the back of each one. Remove any excess tissue around the spine.Under a surgical magnifier, make the first incision from the neck then make one cut along the spine on both sides with scissors. Detach the spine from the body of the pup and remove excess muscles. Then cut along the long axis of the spine and use tweezers to open the spine completely to extract the spinal cord.Next, remove the ganglion from the bone pocket. Trim the nerve roots and transfer the ganglia to the ice-cold isolation buffer. Collect approximately 10 to 16 DRGs from both sides.Repeat the dissection procedure for the rest of the pups. Now, transfer the DRGs with isolation buffer into a sterile 15-milliliter tube. Let the tissue settle to the bottom of the tube and gently remove the isolation buffer on top.Then add 10 milliliters of dissociation medium into the tube. Incubate the dissected tissues in the dissociation medium in a 37-degree Celsius water bath for one hour while shaking the tube every five to 10 minutes. After the chemical dissociation, centrifuge the ganglia at four degrees Celsius for five minutes.After five minutes, remove the supernatant, resuspend the pellet in 10 milliliters of standard growth medium and vortex it. Subsequently, centrifuge the dissociated cells once again. Then remove the supernatant, resuspend the pellet in 12 milliliters of standard growth medium and vortex it.Prior to seeding the cells, remove the PLL solution from the chamber. Rinse the PDMS surface with sterile water and air-dry it. After resuspending the cells, let the suspension sit for one to two minutes to allow the debris to settle to the bottom of the tube.Next, add 1.5 milliliters of cell suspension into each stretched chamber and incubate it at 37 degrees Celsius with 5%CO2. To eliminate glial cells at one day in vitro, add 10 microliters or 15 microliters of the FDU-U mixture stock solution to each well. After seven hours, replace this medium with fresh standard growth medium and place the pre-stretched culture device in a 37-degree Celsius incubator in 5%CO2.During the cell culture period, change the medium every two days by replacing half the spent medium with fresh medium. In this procedure, remove the culture medium from the Schwann cells and add five milliliters of 0.05%Trypsin-EDTA into the flask. Incubate the cells at 37 degrees Celsius in 5%CO2 for two to three minutes.Check the cells under the optical microscope using a 10X objective to see if they lift up from the flask. Then add five milliliters of culture medium to the cells in the flask and mix. Subsequently, add the cell suspension to a 15-milliliter centrifuge tube and centrifuge at 20 degrees Celsius for five minutes.Then remove the supernatant and resuspend the pellet in seven milliliters of standard DRG growth medium. Following this, transfer 10 microliters of the cell suspension into a 0.5-milliliter microcentrifuge tube. Mix it with 10 microliters of Trypan blue and then count the cell number with a hemocytometer using a 10X objective.Add the DRG growth medium to dilute the cell suspension to 5, 000 cells per milliliter. Next, remove 0.5 milliliters of the medium from the DRG culture in the stretched chamber and add 0.5 milliliters of Schwann cell suspension to the DRG culture. Culture the cells for one week at 37 degrees Celsius in 5%CO2.Change the medium every two days by replacing half of the spent medium with fresh standard growth medium. After culturing on the stretched and unstretched surfaces for two weeks, purified Schwann cells were added to the chamber and cultured for another week. Shown here is the beta-III tubulin staining for axons on the stretched surface.And this is the overlay of beta-III tubulin and P0 staining on the stretched surface, suggesting the Schwann cells are attached to and likely myelinating the axons. This image shows the beta-III tubulin staining for axons on the unstretched surface. And the overlay of beta-III tubulin and P0 staining on the unstretched surface suggests that the Schwann cells are not attached to the axons.Once mastered, this technique can be done in three to four hours if it is performed properly. While attempting this procedure, it is important to remember to keep the PDMS membrane flat and of homogeneous thickness. Following this procedure, atomizers like pre-stretched microchannels can be performed in order to answer additional questions like axon lens and Schwann cells migration.After its development, this technique will pave the way for researchers in the field of tissue engineering to explore the role of surface anisotropy on nerve regeneration in spinal cord and sciatic nerve. After watching this video, you should have a good understanding of how to induce axon alignment and myelination using pre-stretched device.

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Genetic Study of Axon Regeneration with Cultured Adult Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons

دراسة وراثية من التجديد أكسون مع الكبار الظهرية مثقف الخلايا العصبية العقدة الجذر

It is well known that mature neurons in the central nervous system (CNS) cannot regenerate their axons after injuries due to diminished intrinsic ability ...

Dorsal Root Ganglia Neurons and Differentiated Adipose-derived Stem Cells: An In Vitro Co-culture Model to Study Peripheral Nerve Regeneration

Dorsal Root Ganglia Neurons and Differentiated Adipose-derived Stem Cells: An In Vitro Co-culture Model to Study Peripheral Nerve Regeneration

الظهرية جذر العقد الخلايا العصبية والخلايا الجذعية المتباينة الدهنية المشتقة: ل<em&gt; في المختبر</em&gt; المشارك الثقافة نموذج لدراسة الأعصاب الطرفية التجديد

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In Vitro Modeling of Cancerous Neural Invasion: The Dorsal Root Ganglion Model

In Vitro Modeling of Cancerous Neural Invasion: The Dorsal Root Ganglion Model

في المختبر نمذجة السرطانية العصبية الغزو: وظهري الجذر العقدة نموذج

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Dorsal Root Ganglion Injection and Dorsal Root Crush Injury as a Model for Sensory Axon Regeneration

الظهرية جذر حقن العقدة وظهري الجذر سحق إصابة نموذجا لالحسية أكسون التجديد

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Laminotomy for Lumbar Dorsal Root Ganglion Access and Injection in Swine

و Laminotomy للوصول إلى العقدة الجذر الظهرية القطنية وحقن في الخنازير

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Analysis of Immune Cells in Single Sciatic Nerves and Dorsal Root Ganglion from a Single Mouse Using Flow Cytometry

تحليل للخلايا المناعية في واحد الوركي الأعصاب والعقدة الظهرية الجذرية من ماوس واحدة باستخدام التدفق الخلوي

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Dorsal Root Ganglia Isolation and Primary Culture to Study Neurotransmitter Release

عزل العقد الجذرية الظهرية والثقافة الأولية لدراسة الإفراج عن ناقل عصبي

Dorsal root ganglia (DRG) contain cell bodies of sensory neurons. This type of neuron is pseudo-unipolar, with two axons that innervate peripheral ...

Investigating Mammalian Axon Regeneration: In Vivo Electroporation of Adult Mouse Dorsal Root Ganglion

Investigating Mammalian Axon Regeneration: In Vivo Electroporation of Adult Mouse Dorsal Root Ganglion

التحقيق إكسون الثدييات التجديد: في فيفو انهانسر من العقدة الجذر الظهرية الماوس الكبار

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Use of In Vivo Single-fiber Recording and Intact Dorsal Root Ganglion with Attached Sciatic Nerve to Examine the Mechanism of Conduction Failure

استخدام في فيفو تسجيل واحد من الألياف والعقدة الجذر الرحالة سليمة مع العصب الوركي المرفقة لدراسة آلية فشل التوصيل

Single-fiber recording has been a classical and effective electrophysiological technique over the last few decades because of its specific application for ...

Rapid Isolation of Dorsal Root Ganglion Macrophages

العزلة السريعة للضامة الجذرية الدجورة

There are growing interests to study the molecular and cellular interactions among immune cells and sensory neurons in the dorsal root ganglia after ...