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Establishing a Three-Dimensional Culture of Rat Brain-Derived Glial Cells
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2025
This video demonstrates a technique to establish a three-dimensional culture of glial cells. Rat-brain-derived glial cells are encapsulated within a photocrosslinkable polymer matrix containing extracellular matrix components. Upon incubating in a growth medium, the glial cells proliferate within the supporting matrix to create a three-dimensional culture.
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Endothelial Cell Culture from Rat Brain Microvessels: A Procedure to Isolate and Culture Endothelial Cells from Microvessels of Rat Brain
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2023
This video presents the isolation of microvessels from a rat brain using a combination of density gradient centrifugation and enzymatic digestion mehods. The isolated microvessels can be cultured in a culture flask pre-coated with collagen and fibronectin matrix to obtain endothelial cell colonies.
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Generating a Blood-Brain Barrier Chip Using iPSC-derived Precursor Cells
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2025
This video showcases creating a blood-brain barrier chip using iPSC-derived precursor cells. It involves seeding neural progenitor cells and brain microvascular endothelial cells in separate channels with a porous membrane. By flowing differentiation media, the endothelial cells form tight junctions resembling blood vessels, and the neural cells mature into various brain cell types, establishing a functional blood-brain barrier on the chip.
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Primary Microglia Isolation from Mixed Glial Cell Cultures of Neonatal Rat Brain Tissue
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2012
Isolating primary microglia from the cellular heterogeneity of the brain is essential to investigate their role in both physiological and pathological conditions. This protocol describes a mechanical isolation and mixed cell culture technique that provides high yield and high purity, viable primary microglial cells for in vitro study and downstream applications.
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Lineage-reprogramming of Pericyte-derived Cells of the Adult Human Brain into Induced Neurons
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2014
Targeting brain-resident cells for direct lineage-reprogramming offers new perspectives for brain repair. Here we describe a protocol of how to prepare cultures enriched for brain-resident pericytes from the adult human cerebral cortex and convert these into induced neurons by retrovirus-mediated expression of the transcription factors Sox2 and Ascl1.
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The cultures can include both neuronal and glial cell populations, allowing investigators to examine brain-related behavior in a cellular system rather than focusing only on isolated molecular components. This composition supports studies of brain function, disease, and neural development, while also providing a biological test system for engineered platforms intended to interact with nervous tissue.
Primary cells can preserve cellular behaviors that may be absent from immortalized lines. That distinction matters when researchers evaluate neural responses in disease models, biomaterials, drug studies, or engineered systems. Although the cultures require controlled maintenance after isolation, their closer connection to nervous tissue can provide experimental information that complements more simplified or continuously propagating cell models.
After dissociation, the resulting cell population must be maintained under controlled culture conditions that support attachment, survival, and differentiation. These conditions determine whether the isolated cells remain viable and develop appropriately for downstream experiments. In bioengineering studies, maintaining those requirements is essential before interpreting cellular responses to biomaterials, neural interfaces, or tissue-engineered platforms.
Preparation begins with dissection of selected rat brain regions, followed by mechanical and enzymatic dissociation of the tissue. This process produces a cell population that can then be transferred into culture and maintained under conditions supporting attachment, survival, and differentiation. The sequence connects tissue collection and processing directly to later studies of neural function or engineered systems.
Bioengineers can use the cultures to evaluate biomaterials, neural interfaces, drug responses, and tissue-engineered platforms. Their value lies in testing how neural cells behave in or around an engineered environment while retaining cellular characteristics associated with primary nervous tissue. These experiments help assess whether a design supports relevant cellular outcomes before applying it to more complex neural models.
These cultures provide an experimental bridge between molecular investigations and more complex models of neural development, injury, and regeneration. They offer a cellular setting in which researchers can examine disease-related behavior, drug responses, or engineered neural systems without relying exclusively on either isolated molecular assays or highly complex tissue models. This intermediate scale supports focused evaluation of bioengineering strategies.