Articles by Colleen VanKirk in JoVE

Isolation of CD133+ Liver Stem Cells for Clonal Expansion

JoVE 3183 10/10/2011

C. Bart Rountree¹, Wei Ding¹, Hein Dang¹, Colleen VanKirk², Gay M. Crooks³

¹Department of Pediatrics and Pharmacology, Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, ²Department of Pharmacology, Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, ³Department of Pediatrics, University of California Los Angeles, School of Medicine

Here we describe the isolation of CD133 expressing liver stem cells and cancer stem cells from whole murine liver, a process that requires tissue digestion, cell enrichment, and flow cytometry isolation. We include methods for advanced single cell isolation and clonal expansion.