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Chapters
- 00:04Introduction
- 01:04Small Airway and Alveolar Epithelial Progenitor Cell Enrichment: Distal Lung Tissue Preparation
- 02:16Distal Lung Tissue Enzyme Digestion
- 03:03Distal Lung Tissue Single Cell Isolation
- 04:34Distal Lung Cell Surface Staining for Fluorescence Associated Cell Sorting (FACS)
- 05:45Epithelial Progenitor Cell Enrichment from Tracheo-Bronchial Airways: Proximal Tissue Preparation
- 07:47Proximal Lung Tissue Enzyme Digestion
- 08:51Results: Representative Human Lung Epithelial Progenitor Cell Enrichment and Organoid Culture
- 10:48Conclusion
This article provides a detailed methodology for tissue dissociation and cellular fractionation approaches allowing enrichment of viable epithelial cells from proximal and distal regions of the human lung. Herein these approaches are applied for the functional analysis of lung epithelial progenitor cells through the use of 3D organoids culture models.
