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2 - dGuo処理した胸腺器官培養の準備

Published: August 28, 2008 doi: 10.3791/906

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Summary

このビデオでは、解剖や胎児の胸腺の除去だけでなく、2 - dGuo処理胸腺のex vivoでの培養の準備を示しています。

Abstract

胸腺では、未熟なCD4 8 +ランダムに並び替えT細胞受容体α-およびB鎖の遺伝子を発現する胸腺細胞は、胸腺で表さself-peptide/majorの組織適合性複合体(MHC)分子を認識する能力に基づいて正と負の選択イベントを受ける間質細胞。胸腺内選択中の胸腺間質細胞の役割のin vivo解析では定常状態の成人の胸腺における胸腺微小環境の細胞の複雑さによって困難さ、および適切なターゲット戦略の欠如により、特定の胸腺間質コンパートメントにおける遺伝子発現を操作する。我々は胸腺微小環境を容易に定義されている間質およびリンパ系細胞から三次元胸腺葉の準備を可能に再集合させる胸腺器官培養、を使用してin vitroで操作できることを示している。 in vitro系で他のT -細胞の発達のいくつかの側面をサポートしていますが、胸腺器官培養は、IとIIを介した胸腺細胞選択イベント、などがstudyに有効なツールとして使用できる唯一の​​in vitroの系での効率的なMHCクラスをサポートすることが残っているreaggregate胸腺で正と負の選択の細胞および分子調節。

Protocol

をご覧くださいシュプリンガープロトコルを ex vivoでの胸腺の器官培養の準備の詳細については。

Tags

免疫学、問題18、シュプリンガープロトコル、胸腺、2 - dGuo、胸腺の器官培養、免疫寛容、正と負の選択、リンパ開発

Erratum

Formal Correction: Erratum: Preparation of 2-dGuo-Treated Thymus Organ Cultures
Posted by JoVE Editors on 04/01/2012. Citeable Link.

A correction was made to: Preparation of 2-dGuo-Treated Thymus Organ Cultures. A revised abstract was republished due to a publisher error. The abstract was corrected to:

In the thymus, interactions between developing T-cell precursors and stromal cells that include cortical and medullary epithelial cells are known to play a key role in the development of a functionally competent T-cell pool. However, the complexity of T-cell development in the thymus in vivo can limit analysis of individual cellular components and particular stages of development. In vitro culture systems provide a readily accessible means to study multiple complex cellular processes. Thymus organ culture systems represent a widely used approach to study intrathymic development of T-cells under defined conditions in vitro. Here we describe a system in which mouse embryonic thymus lobes can be depleted of endogenous haemopoeitic elements by prior organ culture in 2-deoxyguanosine, a compound that is selectively toxic to haemopoeitic cells. As well as providing a readily accessible source of thymic stromal cells to investigate the role of thymic microenvironments in the development and selection of T-cells, this technique also underpins further experimental approaches that include the reconstitution of alymphoid thymus lobes in vitro with defined haemopoietic elements, the transplantation of alymphoid thymuses into recipient mice, and the formation of reaggregate thymus organ cultures. (This article is based on work first reported Methods in Molecular Biology 2007, Vol. 380 pages 185-196).

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In the thymus, immature CD4+8+ thymocytes expressing randomly rearranged T-cell receptor α- and b-chain genes undergo positive and negative selection events based on their ability to recognize self-peptide/major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules expressed by thymic stromal cells. In vivo analysis of the role of thymic stromal cells during intrathymic selection is made difficult by the cellular complexity of the thymic microenvironment in the steady-state adult thymus, and by the lack of appropriate targeting strategies to manipulate gene expression in particular thymic stromal compartments. We have shown that the thymic microenvironment can be readily manipulated in vitro through the use of reaggregate thymus organ cultures, which allow the preparation of three-dimensional thymus lobes from defined stromal and lymphoid cells. Although other in vitro systems support some aspects of T-cell development, reaggregate thymus organ culture remains the only in vitro system able to support efficient MHC class I and II-mediated thymocyte selection events, and so can be used as an effective tool to study the cellular and molecular regulation of positive and negative selection in the thymus.

2 - dGuo処理した胸腺器官培養の準備
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Jenkinson, W., Jenkinson, E.,More

Jenkinson, W., Jenkinson, E., Anderson, G. Preparation of 2-dGuo-Treated Thymus Organ Cultures. J. Vis. Exp. (18), e906, doi:10.3791/906 (2008).

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