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Using Unfixed, Frozen Tissues to Study Natural Mucin Distribution
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2012
Unfixed frozen tissue samples embedded in Optimal Cutting Temperature medium (OCT) can be used to study natural distribution and glycosylation of secreted mucus. In this approach tissue processing is minimal and the natural presentation of glycolipids, mucins and glycan-epitopes is preserved. Tissue sections can be analyzed by immunohistochemistry using fluorescence or chromogenic detection.
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Mucin Agarose Gel Electrophoresis: Western Blotting for High-molecular-weight Glycoproteins
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2016
Mucins are high-molecular-weight glycoconjugates, with size ranging from 0.2 to 200 megadalton (MDa). As a result of their size, mucins do not penetrate conventional polyacrylamide gels and require larger pores for separation. We provide a detailed protocol for mucin agarose gel electrophoresis to assess relative quantification and study polymer assembly.
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Profiling of Permethylated Mucin O-glycans Using Matrix-assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-flight Mass Spectrometry
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2025
Here, we present a detailed protocol for the release of O-glycans from mucins, and the subsequent desalting, permethylation, and analysis using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry.
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Robotic Duodenum-preserving Total Pancreatic Head Resection for Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms
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2026
This protocol presents robotic duodenum-preserving total pancreatic head resection (R-DPPHRt) for intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs). A video demonstrates the technique in a patient with main duct-IPMN, highlighting its feasibility as a minimally invasive, organ-preserving alternative to pancreaticoduodenectomy.
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Mixed Strategies
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2025
In game theory, mixed strategies involve players choosing their actions randomly from a set of available options. This approach contrasts with pure strategies, where players select a specific action with certainty. Mixed strategies become relevant in scenarios where there is no pure strategy equilibrium. A mixed-strategies Nash equilibrium occurs when players adopt strategies so that no one can benefit by unilaterally changing their own strategy, given the strategies of the others. In this...
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Mucin Mix owes its barrier-like behavior to mucin glycoproteins. Their carbohydrate-rich regions bind water and interact with one another, creating a hydrated, gel-like network. That network produces both viscosity and elasticity, while also allowing molecules to diffuse selectively. These combined properties let experiments assess transport through a mucus-like environment rather than through water alone.
Mucin composition and structure affect how the resulting environment behaves as a protective barrier. Because mucins create hydrated networks with specific physical properties, differences in the mixture can influence molecular diffusion, particle transport, microbial adhesion, and interactions with host tissues. This makes composition an important experimental variable when researchers examine how mucus barriers regulate biological events.
A simple aqueous solution does not reproduce the gel-like, hydrated organization created by interacting mucin glycoproteins. Mucin Mix provides viscosity, elasticity, and selective molecular diffusion, allowing researchers to study processes under conditions that better represent a mucus barrier. The comparison can reveal how a structured protective layer changes transport or biological interactions compared with water-based conditions.
Researchers can use Mucin Mix for in vitro studies of mucus-barrier behavior and the processes occurring within or across that environment. Supported applications include examining microbial adhesion, particle transport, drug delivery, and interactions between pathogens and host tissues. Its physical properties help connect observed biological outcomes to the presence of a hydrated, mucin-based barrier.
The preparation provides a mucus-like environment in which researchers can examine how microorganisms interact with a mucin-containing barrier. These studies can focus on microbial adhesion under conditions that include mucin-associated hydration, viscosity, and network structure. Results help investigators evaluate how mucus composition and organization may influence contact between microbes and epithelial surfaces.
Mucin Mix enables researchers to evaluate how particles or drug-delivery materials move through a hydrated, gel-like medium rather than through a simple aqueous solution. Its viscosity, elasticity, and selective diffusion properties create a more physiologically relevant test environment. Measurements made in this setting can help assess how mucus-like barriers influence movement and access to epithelial surfaces.
Mucin Mix helps model the mucus layer that separates epithelial surfaces from their surroundings during in vitro investigations. Researchers can use it to examine how pathogen interactions are affected by mucin-rich structure, hydration, and transport conditions. This provides biological context for studying host-pathogen contact while avoiding interpretation based solely on behavior in an unstructured aqueous medium.