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. 2020 Jan 14;7:100792. doi: 10.1016/j.mex.2020.100792
Subject Area:
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

  • Medicine and Dentistry

More specific subject area: Anatomy and Molecular Embryology
Method name: Cell injection in CPM
Bead implantation in the BA2
Whole-mount immunostaining for QCPN
Name and reference of original method: Kodo K, Shibata S, Miyagawa-Tomita S, Ong SG, Takahashi H, Kume T, Okano H, Matsuoka R, Yamagishi H. 2017.
Regulation of Sema3c and the Interaction between Cardiac Neural Crest and Second Heart Field during Outflow Tract Development. Scientific reports 7.
Resource availability: A. Resources needed to reproduce the experiments
Chicken eggs
Quail cells (QT6)
Fridge
Incubator
Tungsten needle
Forceps
Spoon
Medical tape
Fine scissors
Falcon tubes
Pasteur pipettes
Eppendorf pipettes
Caps of microcentrifuge tube
Petri dish
24 Well plates
Cellulose compress (900-0853, Henry Schein)
Parafilm 38 M X 10 CM
Aspiratory tube
Glass capillary
Stereo microscope (M165 FC, Leica, Germany) equipped with a digital camera (DFC420 C, Leica, Germany)
PBS (1x):Start with 800 ml of distilled water, 8 g of NaCl, 0.2 g of KCl, 1.44 g of Na2HPO4, 0.24 g of KH2PO4, adjust the Ph to 7.4 with HCl, add distilled water to total volume of 1 L.
PBST:0.1% Tween-20 in 1x PBS.
4 % PFA in PBS:for 1 L, add 40 g of paraformaldehyde to heated (60 °C) 800 ml of 1x PBS.
Blocking solution: 2% skim milk, 1.0% Triton X-100, 1x PBST.
DMEM:Dulbecco's Modified Eagle Medium
QCPN antibody (monoclonal, 1/50, Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank
HRP (horseradish peroxidase) conjugated with goat anti mouse (polyclonal, 1/200, Jackson ImmunoResearch Lab, USA
DAB (3,3′-Diaminobenzidine)
H2O2 (30 % hydrogen peroxide solution)
AG beads (AG 1-X2 resin, 143–1255, Bio-Rad)
SDF-1 protein (300-28A; PeproTech)
B. Resources needed to make video
Olympus dual head teaching microscope
MovieZilla Movie Maker Software
Samsung Galaxy S8 Smartphone