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Isolation of Cerebrospinal Fluid from Rodent Embryos for use with Dissected Cerebral Cortical Explants
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1Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, 2Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Institute for Neuroscience,The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, 3Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine,Boston Children’s Hospital, 4Howard Hughes Medical Institute,Boston Children’s Hospital, 5Department of Pathology,Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Chapters
- 00:05Title
- 01:24Micro-capillary Pipette and Embryo Preparations
- 02:47Ventricular CSF Collection
- 05:01Cortical Explant Dissection
- 06:51Transferring and Culturing of Cortical Explant in CSF
- 08:30CSF Collection Characteristics
- 09:20Conclusion
The ventricular cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) bathes the neuroepithelial and cerebral cortical progenitor cells during early brain development in the embryo. Here we describe the method developed to isolate ventricular CSF from rodent embryos of different ages in order to investigate its biological function. In addition, we demonstrate our cerebral cortical explant dissection and culture technique that allows for explant growth with minimal volumes of culture medium or CSF.
