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Analysis of isolation of cerebral cortical neurons in rats by different methods

by JIANHUA LI, YAOGANG ZHANG, TAO ZHANG, MEIYUAN TIAN, JING HOU, DENGLIANG HUANG, YAN CHENG, ZHU MAN, XIAOMING SU, ZHIQIN LI, SIXIAN TONG, XUAN ZHANG, JUN DENG, YUN DONG, YANYAN MA

1 Central Laboratory of Qinghai University Affiliated Hospital, Qinghai University, Xining, 810000, China
2 Qinghai Research Key Laboratory for Echinococcosis, Xining, 810000, China
3 Qinghai University, Xining, 810000, China

* Address correspondence to: Yanyan Ma,
# These authors have contributed equally to this work as co-first authors

BIOCELL 2020, 44(2), 209-215. https://doi.org/10.32604/biocell.2020.08941

Received 27 October 2019; Accepted 19 January 2020; Issue published 27 May 2020

Abstract

The aim of this study was to find a way to efficiently separate neuronal cells from the cerebral cortex of adult rats, providing a reference method for rapid acquisition of neuronal cells from the adult rat brain. Fifteen SD rats were randomly divided into three groups, with five SD rats in each group. Then, neuron cells were isolated from the adult rat cerebral cortex by the grinding method, the trypsin method, and the collagenase II method, respectively. The expression of anti-NeuN in the neurons of each group was analyzed by flow cytometry. The acquisition rates and morphology of neurons of each group were observed by immunofluorescence staining. The grinding or collagenase II method is more suitable for rapid acquisition of neuronal cells from an adult rat’s cerebral cortex. The number of neuron cells obtained by the trypsin method were very few, so it is not convenient for later experiments.

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