How to quickly check the purity of primary cultures of neurons
Any quick method to test purity of primary cultures of neurons (after 17 days of culture, right before using them for signaling assays)?
Cell biology
Clement G. Yedjou
Examine cell culture of neurons under a microscope or use a flow cytometry to isolate and quantify cell populations based on cell surface markers.
Ibrahim A.
Find the most specific marker(s) for your neuronal type of interest and use immunostaining against DAPI.
PETIT Patrice X.
The question is interesting, but what do you mean as quick?
If you have an advanced microscope or a flow cytometer
the characterization of cell surface marker of interest may be the best way.
So, Flow cytometry analysis is teh best and very fast way of doing that.
If you have an advanced microscope or a flow cytometer
the characterization of cell surface marker of interest may be the best way.
So, Flow cytometry analysis is teh best and very fast way of doing that.
Ebtesam Al-Suhaimi
It could be identified by Immunohistochemistry
Please see this reference
Sahu MP, Nikkilä O, Lågas S, Kolehmainen S, Castrén E. Culturing primary neurons from rat hippocampus and cortex. Neuronal Signal. 2019 Apr 26;3(2):NS20180207. doi: 10.1042/NS20180207. PMID: 32714598; PMCID: PMC7363313.
Rui Pereira
Do Immunoflourescence markers upon culture (glial and non glial cells). To do at different time points corresponding to different "neuronal maturation". Hope this can help.
Mohamed Elbadawy
At first, the right sampling is important. after culture, you can use a positive control cell line and compare your cells with it in morphology, growth and proliferation style, and finally neuronal cell markers expression quantification.
Mak