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Published in final edited form as: J Vis Exp. 2019 Aug 28;(150):10.3791/60230. doi: 10.3791/60230
Name of Material/Equipment Company Catalog Number Comments/Description
Benchtop Centrifuge Thermo Scientific 75-203-637 Sorvall ST8 Centrifuge
Cell Culture Microscope Zeiss WSN-AXIOVERT A1 Vert.A1 inverted scope, Inverted tissue culture microscope with fluorescent capabilities
Cell Culture Grade Water Gen Clone 25-511
Cytosine Arabinoside Sigma C1768-100MG (AraC) Dissolve lyophilized powder in sterile cell culture grade water to make a 10mM stock, aliquot and freeze for long term storage
DAPI Sigma D9542-5MG Dissolve lyophilized powder in deionized water to a maximum concentration of 20 mg/ml, heat or sonicate as necessary. Use at 300 nM for counterstaining.
Dissecting Microscope Zeiss Stemi 305
Dissecting Scissors F.S.T 14558-09
Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Medium Gen Clone 25-500
Fetal Bovine Serum Gemini 100-106 Heat-Inactivated
FIJI (Fiji is Just Image J) NIH Version 1.52i
Fine Tip Tweezers F.S.T 11254-20 Style #5
Fluorescence light source Excelitas 012-63000 X-Cite 120Q
GFAP antibody Cell Signaling 3670S GFAP (GA5) mouse monoclonal antibody
Glass Bottom Dishes Mattek corporation P35G-1.5-14-C 35 mm Dish | No. 1.5 Coverslip | 14 mm Glass Diameter | Uncoated
Graefe Forceps F.S.T 11054-10 Graefe Iris Forceps with curved tips
Hank’s Balanced Salt Solution (10x) Gibco 14065-056 Magnesium and calcium free
Imaging Media Life Technologies A14291DJ Live Cell Imaging Solution
Inverted Confocal Microscope Zeiss LSM 780
KymoToolBox https://github.com/fabricecordelieres/IJ_KymoToolBox
Lipofection Reagent Life Technologies 15338100 Lipofectamine LTX reagent
Lipofection Enhancer Reagent Life Technologies 11514015 Plus Reagent
Green fluorescent dye that stains acidic compartments (late endosomes and lysosomes) Life Technologies L7526 LysoTracker Green DND 26. Pre-dissolved in DMSOS to a 1mM stock solution. Dilute to the final working concentration in the growth medium or buffer of choice.
Reduced serum medium Gibco 31985-062 OPTI-MEM
Orbital shaking incubator New Brunswick Scientific 8261-30-1008 Innova 4230, orbital shaking incubator with temperature and speed control
Penicillin/Strepomycin solution (100x) Gen Clone 25-512
Phosphate Buffered Saline (10x) Gen Clone 25-507x
Poly-D-Lysine Hydrobromide Sigma P7405 Dissolve in Tris buffer, pH 8.5, at 1mg/mL. Freeze for long term storage. Avoid cycles of freezing and thawing
Tissue Culture Flasks Olympus Plastics 25-209 75 cm^2. 100% angled neck access, 0.22um hydrophobic vented filter cap
Tissue culture incubator Thermo Scientific 51030285 HERAcell VIOS 160i, tissue culture incubator with temperature, humidity, and CO2 control
Tris-Base Sigma T1503 8.402 g dissolved to one liter in water with 4.829 g Tris HCl to make 0.1 M Tris buffer, pH 8.5
Tris-HCl Sigma T3253 4.829 g dissolved to one liter in water with 8.402 g Tris Base to make 0.1 M Tris buffer, pH 8.5
Trypsin-EDTA (0.25%), phenol red Gibco 25200072
2.5% Trypsin (10x) Gibco 15090-046
Vacuum-Driven Filter Systems Olympus Plastics 25-227 500 ml, PES membrane, 0.22 μm
Vannas scissors straight Roboz RS-5620