Tissue Culture Techniques
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Histotypic Tissue Culture
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2023
Although two-dimensional tissue culture has been common for some time, cells behave more realistically in a three-dimensional culture, and more closely mimics native tissue. This video introduces histotypic tissue culture, where the growth and propagation of one cell line is done in an engineered three-dimensional matrix to reach high cell density. Here, we show the harvesting of cells from donor tissue, followed by cell culture on an engineered construct.
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Plant Tissue Culture
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2020
Plant tissue culture is widely used in both primary and applied science. Applications range from plant development studies to functional gene studies, crop improvement, commercial micropropagation, virus elimination, and conservation of rare species. Plant tissue culture depends on the ability of plant tissue to give rise to an entire new plant when provided with a growth medium and appropriate environment. This ability of plant cells or tissues is termed ‘totipotency.’ The fundamental steps...
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Whole Organ Tissue Culture
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2023
Whole organs can be cultured ex vivo using specialized bioreactors with the goal of repairing or replacing entire organs. This method uses a donor organ that is stripped of all cells, leaving behind the three-dimensional structure, which is then repopulated with new cells. This video demonstrates the whole organ culture of lungs and shows how a dynamic culture that mimics the mechanical stimulation in the body is needed to induce native tissue properties.
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Explant Culture of Neural Tissue
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2023
The intricate structure of the vertebrate nervous system arises from a complex series of events involving cell differentiation, cell migration, and changes in cell morphology. Studying these processes is essential to our understanding of nervous system function as well as our ability to diagnose and treat disorders that result from abnormal development. However, neural tissues are relatively inaccessible for experimental manipulations, especially in embryonic mammals. As a result, many...
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Culturing Mouse Cardiac Valves in the Miniature Tissue Culture System
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2015
Here, we present an ex vivo flow model in which murine cardiac valves can be cultured allowing the study of the biology of the valve.
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Signaling molecules provide cues that can alter how cultured cells or tissues behave, helping researchers examine mechanisms that regulate development. By testing these cues under controlled conditions, investigators can separate cellular responses from influences present in an intact organism. This approach supports analysis of how molecular signals contribute to tissue formation and differentiation.
Temperature, pH, oxygen availability, nutrient composition, and signaling molecules all influence the behavior of cultured material. Maintaining these factors under controlled conditions allows researchers to compare developmental responses more reliably and identify environmental contributions to gene activity, cell proliferation, or tissue organization. Changes in these conditions can therefore alter experimental outcomes.
In plant systems, growth regulators can shift the developmental behavior of cultured cells. Depending on the experimental conditions, they may promote cell proliferation, organ formation, or differentiation. This makes tissue culture useful for testing how chemical cues influence developmental pathways and for comparing alternative outcomes from the same starting explant or cell population.
A typical workflow begins with an explant or cell population, which is placed in a sterile nutrient medium. Researchers then regulate temperature, pH, oxygen, and relevant signaling molecules while monitoring the resulting cellular or tissue changes. The cultured material can subsequently support microscopy, transplantation, regeneration studies, or comparisons of developmental responses.
Tissue culture allows investigators to isolate cellular and tissue-level mechanisms that may be difficult to distinguish within an intact organism. Researchers can control environmental conditions and test selected developmental cues more directly. This makes the technique valuable for comparing responses, examining gene and environmental effects, and linking specific conditions with developmental outcomes.
These techniques can generate material for microscopy, transplantation, and regeneration studies while also revealing how cells or tissues respond to genes, signaling molecules, and environmental conditions. The same experimental framework can support disease modeling and comparisons that are difficult in intact organisms, extending developmental analysis from basic mechanisms to medically relevant questions.