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Transillumination-Assisted Dissection of Specific Stages of the Mouse Seminiferous Epithelial Cycle for Downstream Immunostaining Analyses
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1Institute of Biomedicine, Integrative Physiology and Pharmacology Unit,University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 2Department of Pediatrics,Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland, 3Centre for Reproductive Health,Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, VIC 3168, Australia, 4Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute,Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia
Chapters
- 00:04Introduction
- 00:51Testis Dissection and Preparation
- 02:10Transillumination-Assisted Microdissection
- 02:47Squash Preparation and Stage Verification
- 04:04Whole-Mount Seminiferous Tubule Immunostaining
- 07:04Results: Representative Mouse Seminiferous Epithelial Cycle Staging
- 09:16Conclusion
This protocol describes transillumination-assisted microdissection of segments of adult mouse seminiferous tubules representing specific stages of seminiferous epithelial cycle, and cell types therein, and subsequent immunostaining of squash preparations and intact tubule segments.
