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From MEFs to Matrigel 3: Passaging hESCs from Matrigel onto Matrigel
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2008
This video demonstrates how to maintain the growth of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) in feeder cell-free conditions and how to continuously passage hESCs in feeder cell-free conditions. Confirmation of hESC pluripotency grown in feeder cell-free conditions by immunofluorescence microscopy is also demonstrated. Part 3 of 3.
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From MEFs to Matrigel 2: Splitting hESCs from MEFs onto Matrigel
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2008
This video demonstrates how to maintain the growth of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) in feeder cell-free conditions and how to continuously passage hESCs in feeder cell-free conditions. Confirmation of hESC pluripotency grown in feeder cell-free conditions by immunofluorescence microscopy is also demonstrated. Part 2 of 3.
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From MEFs to Matrigel I: Passaging hESCs in the Presence of MEFs
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2008
This video demonstrates how to grow human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) on mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) feeder cells. Part 1 of 3.
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A Matrigel-Based Tube Formation Assay to Assess the Vasculogenic Activity of Tumor Cells
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2011
A tube formation assay is used to evaluate vascular activity of tumor cells.
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Three-dimensional Cell Culture Model for Measuring the Effects of Interstitial Fluid Flow on Tumor Cell Invasion
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2012
Interstitial fluid flow is elevated in solid tumors and can modulate tumor cell invasion. Here we describe a technique to apply interstitial fluid flow to cells embedded in a matrix and then measure its effects on cell invasion. This technique can be easily adapted to study other systems.
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Laminin and type IV collagen are key extracellular-matrix components that help create the system’s tissue-like environment. They contribute both structural support and biochemical signals, giving embedded cells cues that can promote growth, organization, and differentiation. This combination allows researchers to examine cellular behavior within a matrix that more closely reflects aspects of tissue structure than a conventional two-dimensional culture surface.
The matrix functions as more than a passive scaffold because it supplies biochemical signals as well as a three-dimensional framework. Cells embedded within it can organize and differentiate while interacting with their surrounding matrix. These combined physical and biochemical influences help researchers investigate processes such as tissue development, cell migration, and invasion under conditions that better represent a cellular microenvironment.
Two-dimensional culture presents cells with a relatively flat growth context, whereas the Matrigel system supports organization within a three-dimensional matrix. That difference can make tissue-like arrangement, differentiation, migration, and invasion easier to study. Consequently, the system provides a useful comparison with conventional culture when researchers want to assess how spatial organization affects cellular or developmental behavior.
Cells are embedded within the temperature-sensitive Matrigel hydrogel rather than grown only on a flat culture surface. The surrounding matrix supplies a three-dimensional scaffold and biochemical cues as the cells grow. This arrangement enables researchers to examine changes in organization and differentiation, and it supports culture formats used to investigate tissue structure and organoid development.
Researchers use the system to support organoid culture and to model aspects of tissue development. Within the matrix, cells can grow and organize in three dimensions, allowing investigators to examine structural and differentiation-related outcomes. These cultures are therefore useful for studying how cells form organized tissue-like arrangements rather than remaining in the simpler configuration typical of two-dimensional systems.
Matrigel cultures can be used to investigate disease processes, cell migration, and invasion, while also supporting evaluation of drug responses. The three-dimensional environment provides a context for observing how cells organize and behave during these studies. In biology and biomedical research, this makes the system useful for connecting cellular responses with features of tissue structure and the surrounding microenvironment.