Chapter title |
Cell Type-Specific Laser Capture Microdissection for Gene Expression Profiling in the Human Brain
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Chapter number | 11 |
Book title |
Laser Capture Microdissection
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2018
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-7558-7_11 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-7557-0, 978-1-4939-7558-7
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Authors |
Sarah A. Mauney, Tsung-Ung W. Woo, Kai C. Sonntag, Mauney, Sarah A., Woo, Tsung-Ung W., Sonntag, Kai C. |
Abstract |
Cell type-specific laser microdissection technologies in combination with molecular techniques to determine gene expression profiles have become powerful tools to gain insight into the neurobiological basis of neural circuit disturbances in various neurologic or psychiatric diseases. To identify specific cell populations in human postmortem brain tissue, one can use the inherent properties of the cells, such as pigmentation and morphology or their structural composition through immunohistochemistry (IHC). Here, we describe the isolation of homogeneous neurons and oligodendrocytes and the extraction of high-quality RNA from these cells in human postmortem brain using a combination of rapid IHC, Nissl staining, or simple morphology with Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM), or Laser Microdissection (LMD). |
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