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A Rapid Filter Insert-based 3D Culture System for Primary Prostate Cell Differentiation
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2017
Here, we present a method for the establishment of a rapid in vitro system that supports the three dimensional culturing and subsequent luminal differentiation of primary prostate epithelial cells.
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Primary Neuronal Cultures
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2023
The complexity of the brain often requires neuroscientists to use a simpler system for experimental manipulations and observations. One powerful approach is to generate a primary culture by dissecting nervous system tissue, dissociating it into single cells, and growing those cells in vitro. Primary cultures make neurons and glia easily accessible to the experimental tools required for techniques like genetic manipulation and time-lapse imaging. Furthermore, these cultures represent a highly...
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Using Primary Neurosphere Cultures to Study Primary Cilia
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2017
The primary cilium is fundamentally important in neural progenitor cell proliferation, neuronal differentiation, and adult neuronal function. Here, we describe a method to study ciliogenesis and the trafficking of signaling proteins to cilia in neural stem/progenitor cells and differentiated neurons using primary neurosphere cultures.
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Primary Culture of Human Vestibular Schwannomas
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2014
Vestibular Schwannomas (VSs) are non-malignant tumors of Schwann cell (SC) origin, associated with mutations in the NF2 tumor suppressor gene. We report a reproducible, efficient protocol for primary human VS cell culture that allows for molecular and cellular experimental manipulation and analysis and recapitulates the heterogeneous nature of human disease.
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Isolation and Culture of Mouse Primary Pancreatic Acinar Cells
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2013
In this publication, we describe a rapid and convenient procedure for isolating and culturing primary pancreatic acinar cells from the murine pancreas. This method constitutes a valuable approach to study the physiology of fresh primary normal/untransformed exocrine pancreatic cells.
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The three-dimensional setting shapes cell behavior through several linked mechanisms. Cell-cell contacts allow neighboring cells to influence one another, while cell-matrix interactions connect cells to surrounding extracellular materials or scaffolds. Uneven nutrient distribution creates gradients, and these physical conditions alter biochemical signaling and tissue organization. Consequently, measurements may reflect coordinated cellular behavior rather than isolated responses from individual cells.
Primary 3D cultures support examination of tissue-specific metabolism, protein activity, and signaling pathways within an organized cellular environment. They also allow investigators to assess how those biochemical features respond to drugs or environmental conditions. This combination links molecular measurements with changes in cellular behavior, making the system useful when the relationship between biochemical regulation and tissue function is central.
Compared with conventional two-dimensional cultures, Primary 3D cultures provide cell growth within an extracellular matrix or supporting scaffold, preserving more cell-cell contacts, cell-matrix interactions, nutrient gradients, and spatial signaling. This organization can better retain native cellular properties and produce responses that more closely resemble tissue behavior. The comparison matters when biochemical activity must be interpreted within spatial relationships.
The workflow starts with freshly isolated tissue, followed by establishment of the cells in a three-dimensional environment. Investigators maintain growth within extracellular matrix materials or a supporting scaffold so that cell contacts, matrix interactions, nutrient gradients, and signaling can develop. Once established, the culture can be examined for tissue-specific biochemical activity or tested under drug or environmental conditions.
These cultures are useful when a study requires more than a simple cell survival or isolated molecular measurement. Researchers can apply them to disease modeling, compound testing, and analysis of responses to environmental conditions. Their organized setting helps connect treatment- or disease-related changes with metabolism, protein activity, signaling pathways, and broader cellular behavior.
Primary 3D cultures can reveal how cellular behavior changes during culture rather than treating the maintained system as static. Researchers can examine shifts in tissue-specific metabolism, protein activity, or signaling pathways and relate them to the surrounding three-dimensional conditions. This is relevant to biochemistry because it frames molecular readouts as changing properties of cells within an organized tissue-like environment.