Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana 2 articles published in JoVE Biology Isolation and Identification of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Derived from Adipose Tissue of Sprague Dawley Rats Aymé Oliva Cárdenas1,2, Blanca C. Zamora-Rodríguez2, Kevin A. Batalla-García2, Alejandro Ávalos-Rodríguez3, Alejandra Contreras-Ramos4, Clara Ortega-Camarillo2 1Doctorado en Ciencias Biológicas y de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2Medical Research Unit in Biochemistry, Specialties Hospital, National Medical Center SXXI, Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social, 3Department of Agricultural and Animal Production, Division of Biological and Health Science, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, 4Molecular Biology Research Laboratory, Center for Congenital Malformations, Children Hospital of Mexico Federico Gomez (HIMFG) This protocol describes a methodology for isolating and identifying adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) from Sprague Dawley rats. Bioengineering Computational Reconstruction of Pancreatic Islets as a Tool for Structural and Functional Analysis Gerardo J. Félix-Martínez1,2, Aurelio Nicolás-Mata2, J. Rafael Godínez-Fernández2 1Investigador por México (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, México), , 2Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana In this protocol, the pancreatic islets are reconstructed and analyzed using computational algorithms implemented in a dedicated multiplatform application.
