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ArticleACS chemical neuroscience2010

Isolation of functional presynaptic complexes from CNS neurons: a cell-free preparation for the study of presynaptic compartments In vitro.

Anna Lisa Lucido, Gopakumar Gopalakrishnan, Patricia T Yam, David R Colman, R Bruce Lennox

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Article in ACS chemical neuroscience, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Anna Lisa Lucido
Gopakumar Gopalakrishnan
Patricia T Yam
David R Colman
R Bruce Lennox

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Abstract

The difficulty in developing successful treatments to facilitate nerve regeneration has prompted a number of new in vitro experimental methods. We have recently shown that functional presynaptic boutons can be formed when neuronal cells are cocultured with surface-modified artificial substrates including poly(d-lysine)-coated beads and supported lipid bilayer-coated beads (Lucido(2009) J. Neurosci.29, 12449-12466; Gopalakrishnan(2010) ACS Chem. Neurosci.1, 86-94). We demonstrate here, using confocal microscopy combined with immunocytochemistry, that it is possible to isolate such in vitro presynaptic endings in an exclusive fashion onto glass substrates through a simple "sandwich/lift-off" technique (Perez(2006) Adv. Funct. Mater.16, 306-312). Isolated presynaptic complexes are capable of releasing and recycling neurotransmitter in response to an external chemical trigger. These bead-presynaptic complexes are facile to prepare and are readily dispersible in solution. They are thus compatible with many experimental methods whose focus is the study of the neuronal presynaptic compartment.

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Cell-Free SystemExocytosisPresynaptic TerminalsAnimalsCell FractionationCells, CulturedCentral Nervous SystemCoated Materials, BiocompatibleFluorescent DyesHippocampusMicroscopy, ConfocalMicrospheresNerve Tissue ProteinsNeuronsPolylysinePolystyrenesCoated Materials, BiocompatibleFluorescent DyesNerve Tissue ProteinsPolylysinePolystyrenespolystyrene sulfonic acidcell-free systemneurodegenerative diseasesNeuronsneurotransmitter releasepresynaptic complexsynapsesynaptic vesicle exocytosis

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PMID22777142
PMCPMC3368679

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