Tissue Swelling
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Mitochondrial Ca2+ Retention Capacity Assay and Ca2+-triggered Mitochondrial Swelling Assay
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2018
This protocol aims to describe a method to examine the Ca2+ retention capacity and Ca2+- triggered mitochondrial swelling of isolated mitochondria of SH-SY5Y cells step-by-step.
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Forskolin-induced Swelling in Intestinal Organoids: An In Vitro Assay for Assessing Drug Response in Cystic Fibrosis Patients
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2017
This protocol describes an assay for measuring CFTR function and CFTR modulator responses in cultured tissue from subjects with cystic fibrosis (CF). Biopsy-derived intestinal organoids swell in a cAMP-driven fashion, a response that is defective (or strongly reduced) in CF organoids and can be restored by exposure to CFTR modulators.
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Formalin-Fixed Paraffin Embedded (FFPE) Tissue Preservation: A Method for Studying Tissue Morphology
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2023
The following video describes how to preserve morphology of a tissue with formalin fixation and paraffin embedding.
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Working with Human Tissues for Translational Cancer Research
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2015
Translational cancer research is dependent on extraction of human tissues. Much work has gone into optimizing extraction methods for ex vivo analysis. Here, we describe tissue processing methods allowing for maximal data output from limited samples.
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Tissue Engineering of a Human 3D in vitro Tumor Test System
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2013
Methods to create human 3D tumor tissues as test systems are described. These technologies are based on a decellularized Biological Vascularized Scaffold (BioVaSc), primary human cells and a tumor cell line, which can be cultured under static as well as under dynamic conditions in a flow bioreactor.
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During inflammation, chemical mediators act on blood vessels to increase their permeability. Plasma and immune components can then move from the circulation into surrounding tissue, producing a local fluid burden and linking vascular responses to visible enlargement. This mechanism makes swelling a useful readout of how strongly injured tissue is responding to inflammatory signals.
Lymphatic drainage helps control fluid accumulation after fluid leaves blood vessels. When this drainage is impaired, fluid and associated immune components can remain in the tissue. Disrupted osmotic balance can also favor continued fluid retention. These mechanisms explain why swelling may persist even after the initial vascular response changes.
Not all enlargement depends on increased blood vessel permeability. Cells may undergo changes that increase the size of the tissue, while material can accumulate within cells or in the surrounding tissue. Recognizing these alternatives helps researchers distinguish predominantly vascular fluid movement from cellular or material contributions to the observed tissue response.
Swelling can reflect several processes, including inflammation, infection, trauma, altered osmotic balance, impaired lymphatic drainage, cellular changes, or accumulated material. Its presence therefore signals that tissue conditions have changed but does not identify one cause by itself. Considering the underlying mechanism helps relate the observation to a specific injury or disease process.
Researchers assess tissue enlargement as an indicator of local biological activity and then interpret it alongside possible vascular, cellular, osmotic, and lymphatic mechanisms. This approach can help characterize inflammatory responses and examine how tissue conditions change during injury or disease. The resulting information supports comparisons of biological states without treating swelling as a standalone diagnosis.
Changes in swelling can provide context for studying how injured tissue responds over time. Because fluid movement, immune-component entry, cellular changes, and drainage all influence tissue size, swelling can help researchers examine inflammatory activity during wound healing and follow alterations associated with disease progression. This connects a visible tissue change with underlying biological events.
Mechanistic studies identify whether swelling is associated with increased vascular permeability, impaired lymphatic drainage, disrupted osmotic balance, cellular changes, or accumulated material. That information helps researchers evaluate treatment strategies aimed at restoring normal tissue fluid balance. Such work is relevant to edema-related disorders and to conditions in which persistent accumulation contributes to disease.