objective: the organotypic co-culture is a well-known technique to examine cellular interactions and their roles in stem cell proliferation and differentiation. this study aims to evaluate the effects of dermal fibroblasts (dfs) on epidermal differentiation of adipose-derived stem cells (ascs) using a three-dimensional (3d) organotypic coculture technique. materials and methods: in this experim...

Early postnatal brain tissue can be cultured in viable and healthy condition for several weeks with development and preservation of the basic cellular and connective organization as socalled organotypic brain slice cultures. The present study describes a simple method for stationary long-term organotypic culture for the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). Hypothalamic brain slices from ...

DNA damage and consequent mutations initiate the multistep carcinogenic process. Differentiated cells have a reduced capacity to repair DNA lesions, but the biological impact of unrepaired DNA lesions in differentiated lung epithelial cells is unclear. Here, we used a novel organotypic human lung three-dimensional (3D) model to investigate the biological significance of unrepaired DNA lesions i...

BACKGROUND Organotypic tissue culture of adult rodent retina with an acute gene transfer that enables the efficient introduction of variable transgenes would greatly facilitate studies into retinas of adult rodents as animal models. However, it has been a difficult challenge to culture adult rodent retina. The purpose of this present study was to develop organotypic tissue culture of adult rode...

Rodent organotypic hippocampal cultures spontaneously develop epileptiform activity after approximately 2 weeks in vitro and are increasingly used as a model of chronic post-traumatic epilepsy. However, organotypic cultures are maintained in an artificial environment (culture medium), which contains electrolytes, glucose, amino acids and other components that are not present at the same concent...

the exact developmental origin of microglia is still under debate. in the present study we investigated which heamatopoietic tissues and which features of the organotypic brain slice culture promoted microglia ramification. the potential of cells derived from embryonic yolk sac, embryonic aorta-gonad-mesonephros and adult blood monocytes was examined. these tissues were co-cultured with brain s...

Techniques for isolation and culture of fetal Type II alveolar epithelial cells, as well as the morphologic and biochemical characteristics of these histotypic cultures, are described. Type II alveolar epithelial cells can be isolated from fetal rat lungs and grown in an organotypic culture system as described in this review. The fetal Type II cells resemble differentiated rat Type II cells in ...

Brain slice preparations are well-established models for a wide spectrum of in vitro investigations in the neuroscience discipline. However, these investigations are limited to acute preparations or thin organotypic culture preparations due to the lack of a successful method that allows culturing of thick organotypic brain slices. Thick brain slice cultures suffer necrosis due to ischemia deep ...