Isolation of microglia from retinas of chronic ocular hypertensive rats

Abstract: Microglia are the principal glial cells involved in the processes of immune inflammation within both retina and optic nerve, especially under the context of glaucomatous neuropathy. Considering the distinguishing role of retinal microglia in glaucoma and the lack of established protocol for microglia isolation from animal glaucoma model, the present study aimed to develop and validate a method with characteristics of both simplicity and efficiency for retinal microglia isolation from chronic ocular hypertensive (COH) rats. A Percoll gradient of various concentrations was used to separate microglia from whole retinal cells of the COH rats and control group. The finally isolated microglia were identified by CD11b and Iba-1 immunofluorescence staining, and the cell viability was determined by trypan blue staining. Additionally, the proportion of microglia in the whole retina cells was identified by flow cytometry. Results showed that the survival rates of isolated retinal microglia with the Percoll gradient method were 67.2 ± 4% and 67.6 ± 3% in control and COH groups, respectively. The proportion of the microglia population in the whole retinal cells was about 0.4–0.93%. To conclude, the present study confirmed that the application of Percoll gradient could effectively separate microglia from retinas of COH rats, which will probably enrich the tool kit for basic researchers of glaucoma specialty and help with scientific investigations.

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Isolation of microglia from retinas of chronic ocular hypertensive rats ; volume:16 ; number:1 ; year:2021 ; pages:992-1001 ; extent:10
Open life sciences ; 16, Heft 1 (2021), 992-1001 (gesamt 10)

Urheber
Zhong, Huimin
Yu, Huan
Sun, Jun
Chen, Junjue
Huang, Shouyue
Huang, Ping
Liu, Xiaohong
Zhong, Yisheng

DOI
10.1515/biol-2021-0100
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022091914450309155230
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  • Zhong, Huimin
  • Yu, Huan
  • Sun, Jun
  • Chen, Junjue
  • Huang, Shouyue
  • Huang, Ping
  • Liu, Xiaohong
  • Zhong, Yisheng

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