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ArticleJournal of visualized experiments : JoVE2017

Reliable Identification of Living Dopaminergic Neurons in Midbrain Cultures Using RNA Sequencing and TH-promoter-driven eGFP Expression.

Beverley M Henley, Bruce N Cohen, Charlene H Kim, Heather D Gold, Rahul Srinivasan, Sheri McKinney, Purnima Deshpande, Henry A Lester

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Article in Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Beverley M HenleyDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology (Caltech); bhenley@caltech.edu.
Bruce N CohenDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Charlene H KimDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Heather D GoldDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Rahul SrinivasanDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Sheri McKinneyDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Purnima DeshpandeDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Henry A LesterDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
California Institute of Technology · US

Funding

Alpha4 Nicotinic Receptor in Addiction: Mouse ModelsR01DA017279 · NIDA · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LESTER, HENRY A. · 2004 to 2014
$3.5M
Chronic nicotine: cell-specific receptor and circuit alterations in basal gangliaR01AG033954 · NIA · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LESTER, HENRY A. · 2009 to 2013
$1.7M
Tools for inside-out pharmacology: nicotinic agentsR01DA037161 · NIDA · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LESTER, HENRY A. · 2013 to 2016
$1.3M
Menthol as a chaperone for nicotonic receptorsR21DA037743 · NIDA · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LESTER, HENRY A. · 2014 to 2015
$413k
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG033954NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA017279NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA037161NIDA NIH HHS R21 DA037743
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In Parkinson's Disease (PD) there is widespread neuronal loss throughout the brain with pronounced degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the SNc, leading to bradykinesia, rigidity, and tremor. The identification of living dopaminergic neurons in primary Ventral Mesencephalic (VM) cultures using a fluorescent marker provides an alternative way to study the selective vulnerability of these neurons without relying on the immunostaining of fixed cells. Here, we isolate, dissociate, and culture mouse VM neurons for 3 weeks. We then identify dopaminergic neurons in the cultures using eGFP fluorescence (driven by a Tyrosine Hydroxylase (TH) promoter). Individual neurons are harvested into microcentrifuge tubes using glass micropipettes. Next, we lyse the harvested cells, and conduct cDNA synthesis and transposon-mediated "tagmentation" to produce single cell RNA-Seq libraries

Indexed as

Sequence Analysis, RNAAnimalsCells, CulturedDopamineDopaminergic NeuronsGABAergic NeuronsGene ExpressionGreen Fluorescent ProteinsMesencephalonMiceNeuronsPolymerase Chain ReactionPromoter Regions, GeneticReproducibility of ResultsTyrosine 3-MonooxygenaseDopamineenhanced green fluorescent proteinGreen Fluorescent ProteinsTyrosine 3-Monooxygenase

Identifiers

PMID28287593
PMCPMC5409190
OpenAlexW2587479219

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