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Organotypic Culture of Full-thickness Adult Porcine Retina
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2011
Here we describe a cost-effective technique for organotypic culture of adult porcine retina for seven days. Briefly, a sterile filter paper was used to lift the neural retina off from the RPE and place photoreceptor side up on an insert raised by a custom-made stand.
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Alternating Magnetic Field-Responsive Hybrid Gelatin Microgels for Controlled Drug Release
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2016
We present a facile method to fabricate a biodegradable gelatin-based drug release platform that is magneto-thermally responsive. This was achieved by incorporating superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles and poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-acrylamide) within a spherical gelatin micro-network crosslinked by genipin, in conjunction with an alternating magnetic field application system.
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Porcine Heart Excision: A Protocol to Extract Porcine Heart for Cardiac Transplant
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2025
In this video, we describe a step-by-step protocol to extract the heart from a porcine model for cardiac transplantation.
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A Novel Culture Model for Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Propagation on Gelatin in Placenta-conditioned Media
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2015
This protocol provides a simple and efficient way to propagate human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) using only conditioned media derived from the human placenta in a gelatin-coated dish without additional exogenous supplementation or hPSC-specific synthetic substrata.
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Purifying Capillaries From a Porcine Brain
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2025
This video demonstrates the isolation of capillaries from fresh porcine brains. The process involves removing the meninges, isolating the grey matter from the brain tissue, homogenizing and filtering the grey matter to isolate the capillaries, and finally using enzymatic digestion to purify the capillaries further.
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Cooling allows gelatin polypeptide chains to associate, creating a water-rich network that behaves as a gel. The resulting structure is not permanently fixed because the chain interactions can be disrupted by warming. This reversible organization gives researchers a way to control whether the material behaves as a hydrated solid or a fluid during bioengineering workflows.
Thermoreversibility enables porcine gelatin to alternate between gel and fluid states through temperature changes. Researchers can therefore process the material in a fluid condition and recover a gel after cooling, while warming can disrupt the network when fluid handling is needed. This tunability supports fabrication strategies that require controllable material handling rather than a permanently rigid matrix.
Chemical modification or crosslinking can improve the mechanical stability of gelatin after the material forms a hydrated network. These treatments are important because the thermoreversible interactions alone produce a structure whose state changes with warming and cooling. In tissue-engineering designs, added stability can help the resulting scaffold or hydrogel retain its intended form during use.
Hydration supplies the water-rich environment associated with gelatin gel formation, while cooling promotes association among its polypeptide chains. Warming reverses that association and returns the material toward a fluid state. Controlling both conditions therefore influences whether gelatin is suitable for handling as a liquid, maintaining a gel, or being incorporated into a tunable bioengineering construct.
A general workflow begins by hydrating the porcine gelatin, followed by cooling to promote formation of the gel network. The material can then be chemically modified or crosslinked when greater mechanical stability is required. Depending on the intended design, the processed gelatin may serve in hydrogels, porous scaffolds, microcarriers, or drug-delivery systems.
Porcine gelatin can be incorporated into several material formats, including hydrogels, porous scaffolds, microcarriers, and drug-delivery systems. These formats use its processability and hydrated gel behavior in different ways. The choice of format depends on the intended function, such as providing a cell-adhesive environment, supporting a porous structure, or carrying a delivered substance.
In tissue engineering, porcine gelatin can provide environments that support cell adhesion while remaining amenable to processing into different material architectures. Chemical modification and crosslinking can further improve structural stability. These features make it useful for constructing or studying materials intended to model, support, or contribute to the repair of soft tissues.