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Establishing a High Throughput Epidermal Spheroid Culture System to Model Keratinocyte Stem Cell Plasticity
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Developmental Biology
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JoVE Journal Developmental Biology
Establishing a High Throughput Epidermal Spheroid Culture System to Model Keratinocyte Stem Cell Plasticity
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10:03 min

January 30, 2021

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Chapters

  • 00:04Introduction
  • 00:27Isolation and Culture of Human Keratinocytes from Neonatal Foreskin Tissue
  • 02:37Generating Skin Epidermosphere Cultures in Vitro
  • 05:02Epidermal Spheroid Re-Plating Assay
  • 05:42Characterization of Spheroid-Derived (SD) Sub-Populations by FACS
  • 08:06Results: Characterization of Epidermal Spheroid Formation and Spheroid-Derived NHKs
  • 09:30Conclusion

Summary

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Here we describe a protocol for the systematic cultivation of epidermal spheroids in 3D suspension culture. This protocol has wide-ranging applications for use in a variety of epithelial tissue types and for the modeling of several human diseases and conditions.

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