Protocol needed! Any relative answer will be much appreciated!
Dear Landia,
Attached please find a publication which covers the answer to your question. I have copied the requested protocol for quick view:
Appendix 2. Protocol for postnatal ventral midbrain
dopamine neuron culture
Preparing the astrocyte culture (1 x P0-P5 pup of any strain or gender)
- Prepare 5 ml papain solution and activate it, warm 50 ml of astrocyte medium
- Place 2 ml of dissociation solution in a 100 x 15-mm culture dish
- Sterilise all the dissection instruments and aluminium foil square using 70 %
ethanol
- Decapitate pup, allow the head fall onto aluminium foil square and move to
fume hood. Place the brain on the culture dish
- Under the binocular microscope, place the brain with dorsal side facing upward,
remove the olfactory lobes and the diencephalon. Peel off meninges (Be
thorough, meninges contain fibroblasts that can overgrow astroglial cultures).
Isolate the cortex and cut it into 1mm3
chunks using forceps
- Place tissue pieces in papain and incubate for 20-30 min at 37 °C
- Wash the tissue blocks 3 x 2.0 ml of astrocyte media, replace with 1 ml of media
and begin triturations: Triturate 20 times using 5 ml pipette and 40 times with
1000 µl pipette
- Pellet the glial cells at 1000 x g for 5 min, resuspend pellet in 15 ml Glial
medium. Plate the cells into a 75-cm2
culture flask
(The yield should be approximately 7.5x106
cells)
- After 24 h in culture, wash the cells twice with cold medium and vigorous
shaking to dislodge the neurons and microglia
- Feed the culture every 2-3 d, replace half of the medium and slap the flask to
dislodge loosely attached cells.
Coating of 22-mm coverslips
- Incubate coverslips for 24 hr in 12 N HCl
- Rinse 3 x ddH2O and leave in ddH2O for 1 hr
- Drop the coverslips into a beaker containing 100 ml 95% EtOH, leave for 1min
- Shake off the excess EtOH, place delicately on sterilized Whatman paper and
store in an airtight box
(Surface must be perfectly transparent, storage up to several weeks)
- Cover the surface of each coverslip with of collagen solution (100 µl) per
coverslip and let dry completely
- Add 100 µl of poly-L-lysine solution, incubate for 1 h
- Rinse by sequentially plunging the coverslips into 3 beakers of ddH2O. Place
the coverslips on sterilized Whatman paper and place 100 µl ddH2O. Incubate
for 1 h and repeat. Incubate 1 h and aspirate off excess ddH2O. Let dry
completely. Make sure to rinse thoroughly, excess poly-L-lysine can be toxic
to the
- Grow until confluence (7-10 d)
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Preparing the glial feeder layer (after 7-10 d in culture)
- Place one coated coverslip to each 35 x 10mm well and add 2 ml of astrocyte
media. Place into 37 °C 1-2 h before plating the cells
- Aliquot 21 ml of D-PBS and incubate at 37 °C
- Wash the culture 2 x 6ml D-PBS
- Add 2 ml of trypsin to the culture flask and incubate at 37°C until the first cells
begin to lift off (usually less than 2 min). Add 5ml astrocyte medium to stop the
trypsinisation, pipet repetitively and transfer the cell suspension to 15ml tube
- Centrifuge (1000g, RT, 5 min)
- Resuspend in 10 ml, count the cells using hemocytometer and plate at a density
of 100000 cells/ml
- Once a uniform monolayer of astrocytes is formed, add 12 µl of FUDR solution
per dish.
Preparing the neuronal culture (P0-P2 mouse pups) (work in pairs: one
harvesting brains the other isolating the VTAs)
- 1 day before the dissection replace the astrocyte medium with 2ml Neurobasal
A/B27 supplemented with
(Preconditioning is important for optimal neuronal growth)
- Prepare 5 ml papain solution and activate it, warm 50 ml of neuronal media
- Prepare one 15 ml tube of dissociation solution per brain plus one extra for
midbrains, keep on ice.
- Sterilise all the dissection instruments using 70 % ethanol
- Decapitate pups, allow the head fall onto aluminium foil square and move to
hood
- Collect the brains on 15 ml tubes
- Hold the brain ventral side up, remove the cerebellum, move 3mm in the
anterior direction and do another cut at the mammillary bodies
- Move the piece so that the anterior side faces up
- Remove the segments dorsal, ventral and lateral to VTA and remove residual
meninges
(Perform the dissection in less than 1.5 min to minimize neuronal damage)
- Cut the remaining piece in two, and then in smaller segments, collect the
segments in, transfer the pieces to papain and incubate for 20-30 min at 37 °C
- Using a plastic Pasteur pipette, transfer the brain segments into a sterile 15 ml
tube (try to avoid excess papain solution) and wash them 3 x 2 ml with warmed
neuronal medium: allow segments to settle after each media addition and then
carefully remove as much solution as possible without disturbing the segments.
Change pipettes to avoid contamination!
- Begin triturations in 2ml of neuronal media. Triturate 25 times with 5 ml pipette
(avoid letting in air bubbles) and let the tube sit for 3 min until undissociated
segments settle. Use a transfer pipette to remove and keep as much sol’n as
possible without disturbing segments at the bottom. Keep the supernatant in a
new 15m tube
- Repeat the previous step using a 1000μl pipette and 200μl pipette until
completely dissociated
- Pour the lysate through a 40-μm nylon strainer (BD Biosciences)
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- Count the cells. Multiply the number of cells by 10. This is the number of
cells/μl. Divide by 240 000 (or desired density) by this number. This is the
number of μl to add per dish
- Add 100 µl of GDNF after plating and 10 µl of FUDR after 24 h in culture per
dish. Disturb the dishes as little as possible for the next 7 d
- Change one-third of the medium one week after plating and add 10 µl of
kynurenic acid per dish. Change one-third of the medium (1:2 neuronal and
astrocyte medium) every week thereafter
- Maintain for 10-18 days in culture prior to electrophysiological experiments
Solutions (reagents can be obtained from Sigma, unless otherwise indicated)
(Obtained and modified from Fasano et al., 2008, GDNF recipe obtained and
modified from Frank et al., 2008)
Collagen solution (for 50 22-mm coverslips)
- 7.25 ml ddH2O
- 250 µl PureCol (3.0mg/ml INAMED Biomaterials) or equivalent reagent
- Use freshly made
Borate buffer for poly-L-lysine (store up to 3 weeks at 4 ºC)
- 50 ml of ddH2O
- 155 mg H3BO3
- 238 mg Na2B4O7 decahydrate
- Adjust pH to 8.5 with 1 N HCl filter-sterilize
Dissociation solution (store up to 1 month at 4 ºC)
- 6.39 g Na2SO4
- 2.62 g K2SO4
- 590 mg MgCl2 hexahydrate
- 18.4 mg CaCl2 dihydrate
- 1.19 g HEPES
- 1.80 g D-glucose
- Add ddH2O to 500 ml
- Adjust to pH 7.4 with 1 N NaOH and filter-sterilize
GDNF solution (prepare 76.9 µl aliquots and store up to 1 year at −20ºC)
- 5 µg GDNF (Life Technologies)
- 2.4 ml ddH2O
- Dilute to working solution with 723.1 µl neuronal media (for 8 culture dishes)
FUDR solution (prepare 1 ml aliquots and store up to 1 year at −20ºC)
- 203 ml MEM
- 100 mg 5-fluoro-2-deoxyuridine
- 198 mg uridine
- Filter-sterilize
Kynurenic acid (prepare 1 ml aliquots and store up to 1 year at −20ºC)
- 10 ml ddH2O
- 236.5 mg kynurenic acid
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- Add 5 N NaOH until powder is dissolved and filter-sterilize
Astrocyte medium (store up to 1 week at 37ºC)
- 85.7 ml Minimum Essential Medium (with Earle’s salts, without L-glutamine and
phenol red; Invitrogen)
- 1 ml D-glucose MEM (18.02 g D-glucose into 50 ml of MEM, store up to 3
months at 37 ºC)
- 1 ml penicillin/streptomycin (100× stock solution from Invitrogen)
- 1 ml GlutaMAX (Invitrogen)
- 1 ml of 100 mM sodium pyruvate
- 100 μl MITO+ (Invitrogen) (1 vial of MITO+ into 5 ml of ddH20, store up to 1
year at -20 ºC)
- 200 μl phenol red solution, 0.5% in D-PBS
-Filter sterilize
-10 ml FBS
Neuronal medium (store up to 1 week at 37ºC)
- 86 ml Neurobasal-A medium (without L-glutamine)
- 1 ml GlutaMAX
- 2 ml B27 supplement
- Filter sterilize
- 10 ml FBS
Papain solution (store at 37ºC for a maximum of 30 min)
- 5 ml dissociation solution
- 2.25 mg L-cysteine-HCl monohydrate
- Adjust to pH 7.4 with 1 N NaOH
- 10 mg papain
- Activate at 37ºC for 15 min, filter-sterilize and use freshly made
Poly-L-lysine (prepare 200 µl aliquots and store up to 2 years at −20ºC)
- 5 ml borate buffer for poly-L-lysine (see recipe)
- 5 mg poly-L-lysine hydrobromide (Sigma)
- Dilute to working solution with 1.8 ml of borate buffer (for 15 coverslips).
Hoping this will be helpful,
Rafik
Thank you Rafik!
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