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Human Dupuytren’s Ex Vivo Culture for the Study of Myofibroblasts and Extracellular Matrix Interactions
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Human Dupuytren’s Ex Vivo Culture for the Study of Myofibroblasts and Extracellular Matrix Interactions
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08:59 min

April 18, 2015

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Chapters

  • 00:05Title
  • 02:06Tissue Preparation and Ex Vivo Tissue Culture Setup
  • 05:27Combined Second Harmonic Generation (Collagen) and Two-photon Excited Fluorescence (Elastin) Imaging on Ex Vivo Tissue during Culture
  • 06:39Results: Effects on 3D Extracellular Matrix Composition upon Tissue Manipulation by Compound Treatments and Viral-mediated Gene Modulation
  • 08:17Conclusion

Summary

Automatic Translation

Dupuytren’s disease (DD) is a fibroproliferative disease of the palm of the hand. Here, we present a protocol to culture resection specimens from DD in a three-dimensional (3D) culture system. Such short-term culture system allows preservation of the 3D structure and molecular properties of the fibrotic tissue.

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