Prince Felipe Research Centre View Institution's Website 2 articles published in JoVE Biology Real Time In Vivo Tracking of Thymocytes in the Anterior Chamber of the Eye by Laser Scanning Microscopy Elisa Oltra1,2, Alejandro Caicedo3 1School of Medicine and Dentistry, Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir, 2Unidad Mixta CIPF-UCV, Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, 3Department of Medicine, University of Miami The goal of the protocol is to show longitudinal intravital real-time tracking of thymocytes by laser scanning microscopy in thymic implants in the anterior chamber of the mouse eye. The transparency of the cornea and vascularization of the graft allows for continuously recording progenitor cell recruitment and mature T-cell egress. Biology Assessing Neural Stem Cell Motility Using an Agarose Gel-based Microfluidic Device Kevin Wong1, Angel Ayuso-Sacido2,3, Patrick Ahyow1, Andrew Darling4, John A. Boockvar2, Mingming Wu4 1Biomedical Engineering Department, Cornell University, 2Neurosurgical Laboratory for Translational Stem Cell Research, Weill Cornell Brain Tumor Center, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, 3Cell Morphology Department, Instituto de Investigacion Principe Felipe, 4Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University We demonstrate that the over expression of epidermal growth factor receptors (EGFR) enhances the motility of neural stem cells(NSCs) using a novel agarose gel based microfluidic device. This technology can be readily adaptable to other mammalian cell systems where cell sources are scarce, such as human neural stem cells, and the turn around time is critical.
