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Isolation and culture of oligodendrocytes

  • Marie Theres Weil
  • , Giselheid Schulz-Ëberlin
  • , Chaitali Mukherjee
  • , Wen Ping Kuo-Elsner
  • , Isabelle Schäfer
  • , Christina Müller
  • , Mikael Simons
  • Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine
  • Center Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CNMPB)
  • AbbVie
  • Technical University of Munich
  • German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)
  • Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy)
  • Johannes Gutenberg University

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16 Scopus citations

Abstract

Primary cultures of brain-derived rodent cells are widely used to study molecular and cellular mechanisms in neurobiology. In this chapter, we describe methods of purifying and culturing oligodendroglial cells from mouse perinatal brains. In addition, we describe methods of coculturing the purified oligodendrocytes with neurons. When prepared and cultured according to these protocols, many essential aspects of the biology of oligodendrocytes, such as their proliferation, differentiation, and myelination, can be studied in culture.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMethods in Molecular Biology
PublisherHumana Press Inc.
Pages79-95
Number of pages17
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019

Publication series

NameMethods in Molecular Biology
Volume1936
ISSN (Print)1064-3745

Keywords

  • Coculture
  • Magnetic-activated cell sorting
  • Oligodendrocyte differentiation
  • Oligodendrocyte precursor cells
  • Oligodendrocyte primary culture

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