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Isolation and Culture of Oculomotor, Trochlear, and Spinal Motor Neurons from Prenatal Islmn:GFP Transgenic Mice
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1Department of Neurology,Boston Children’s Hospital, 2FM Kirby Neurobiology Center,Boston Children’s Hospital, 3Department of Neurology,Harvard Medical School, 4Medical Genetics Training Program,Harvard Medical School, 5Department of Ophthalmology,Boston Children’s Hospital, 6Department of Ophthalmology,Harvard Medical School, 7Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, 8Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 9Department of Neurology,Kokura Memorial Hospital, 10Department of Genetics,Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Chapters
- 00:05Title
- 01:17Ventral Midbrain and Spinal Cord Dissection
- 06:10Tissue Dissociation
- 07:23Culture of Purified Primary Motor Neurons
- 07:59Results: Immunohistochemistry of CN3/CN4 and SMN Isolated Cultures
- 09:34Conclusion
This work presents a protocol to yield homogeneous cell cultures of primary oculomotor, trochlear, and spinal motor neurons. These cultures can be used for comparative analyses of the morphological, cellular, molecular, and electrophysiological characteristics of ocular and spinal motor neurons.
