Spinal Cord Isolation
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Spinal Cord Extraction: A Protocol to Isolate Murine Spinal Cord for In Vitro Studies
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2023
In this video, we describe a step-by-step protocol to isolate spinal cord from a mouse model for in vitro studies.
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Spinal Cord Neuron Isolation: A Density Gradient Procedure to Isolate Neonatal Spinal Cord Neurons for In Vitro Studies
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2025
Source: Eldeiry, M. et al. Spinal Cord Neurons Isolation and Culture from Neonatal Mice. J. Vis. Exp. (2017)In this video, we describe a step-by-step protocol for isolating spinal cord neurons from a neonatal mouse for in vitro studies.
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Acute and Chronic Tactile Sensory Testing after Spinal Cord Injury in Rats
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We describe two tactile sensory testing methods for acute or chronic periods of spinal cord injury in rats. These validated procedures can detect the development and maintenance of allodynia-like sensations.
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Spinal Cord Neurons Isolation and Culture from Neonatal Mice
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This study presents a technique for the isolation of neurons from WT neonatal mice. It requires the careful dissection of the spinal cord from the neonatal mouse, followed by the separation of neurons from the spinal cord tissue through mechanical and enzymatic cleavage.
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Spinal Cord Electrophysiology
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2010
A demonstration of the isolation of neonatal mouse spinal cord for electrophysiologic studies.
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Maintaining the cord’s structure and cellular organization allows researchers to examine pathological changes in tissue that remains spatially intact. This is especially relevant when studying tumor invasion or spinal metastasis, because observations can be related to the preserved relationship between nervous tissue and surrounding regions. Minimizing disruption therefore improves the value of subsequent laboratory analysis.
Excessive mechanical damage can disturb the tissue organization that the preparation is intended to preserve, making it harder to distinguish disease-related changes from dissection-related injury. Careful bone removal and dissection help limit this problem. For cancer studies, reducing preparation artifacts supports more reliable examination of tumor-associated neural changes and treatment-related injury.
The preparation provides access to intact nervous tissue for examining interactions between tumors and neural structures. In cancer research, this includes tumor invasion, spinal metastasis, and nerve–tumor interactions, as well as neural injury associated with treatment. Studying these processes in preserved tissue can reveal pathological changes and therapeutic responses under controlled laboratory conditions.
The procedure begins by exposing the spinal cord through removal of vertebral bone and then separating the cord from surrounding connective tissues by careful dissection. Throughout these stages, the operator aims to preserve tissue structure and cellular organization while limiting mechanical damage. The resulting preparation can then be used for controlled laboratory analysis.
Researchers may select this approach when they need direct access to spinal cord tissue to study cancer-related pathology or neural effects of treatment. It is relevant to investigations of tumor invasion, spinal metastasis, nerve–tumor interactions, and treatment-related neural injury. The isolated tissue supports analysis under defined experimental conditions rather than relying only on surrounding vertebral structures.
Isolated tissue can support assessment of pathological changes within the spinal cord and evaluation of how the tissue responds to therapeutic interventions. Because the method preserves access to intact nervous tissue, researchers can examine disease-associated alterations alongside treatment-related neural injury. These observations may help characterize experimental responses in a controlled cancer research setting.