Cryosectioning Method for Microdissection of Murine Colonic Mucosa.

Farkas, Elek Attila and Gerner-Smidt, Christian and Lili, L. and Nusrat, A. and Capaldo, Christopher T. (2015) Cryosectioning Method for Microdissection of Murine Colonic Mucosa. JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS, 2015 (101). pp. 1-6. ISSN 1940-087X

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Abstract

The colonic mucosal tissue provides a vital barrier to luminal antigens. This barrier is composed of a monolayer of simple columnar epithelial cells. The colonic epithelium is dynamically turned over and epithelial cells are generated in the stem cell containing crypts of Lieberkuhn. Progenitor cells produced in the crypt-bases migrate toward the luminal surface, undergoing a process of cellular differentiation before being shed into the gut lumen. In order to study these processes at the molecular level, we have developed a simple method for the microdissection of two spatially distinct regions of the colonic mucosa; the proliferative crypt zone, and the differentiated surface epithelial cells. Our objective is to isolate specific crypt and surface epithelial cell populations from mouse colonic mucosa for the isolation of RNA and protein.

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