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Schwann Cells

Methods and Protocols

  • Include cutting-edge methods and protocols
  • Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results
  • Contains key notes and implementation advice from the experts

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology (MIMB, volume 1739)

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Table of contents (31 protocols)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Protocols for Preparing Primary Cultures, Cell Lines and Engineered Schwann Cells

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Isolation of Schwann Cell Precursors from Rodents

      • Rhona Mirsky, Kristjan R. Jessen
      Pages 3-15
    3. Detailed Protocols for the Isolation, Culture, Enrichment and Immunostaining of Primary Human Schwann Cells

      • Tamara Weiss, Sabine Taschner-Mandl, Peter F. Ambros, Inge M. Ambros
      Pages 67-86
    4. Culture and Expansion of Rodent and Porcine Schwann Cells for Preclinical Animal Studies

      • Adriana E. Brooks, Gagani Athauda, Mary Bartlett Bunge, Aisha Khan
      Pages 111-126
    5. Derivation of Fate-Committed Schwann Cells from Bone Marrow Stromal Cells of Adult Rats

      • Y. P. Tsui, Graham K. Shea, Y. S. Chan, Daisy K. Y. Shum
      Pages 137-148

About this book

This volume presents an assortment of traditional and emerging experimental procedures relevant to Schwann cell research. The chapters are divided into four parts. Part I contains protocols for in vitro culture, purification, and characterization of primary Schwann cells from diverse species and stages of nerve development. It also contains protocols to create cancer cell lines and engineered Schwann cells from unconventional sources via chemical conversion, induced differentiation or genetic intervention. Parts II and III outline a wide range of methodologies used to study Schwann cells within in vitro and in vivo systems relevant to the analysis of peripheral nerve development, cancer, axon degeneration/regeneration, and myelination. Last but not least, part IV outlines protocols for Schwann cell production, collection, labeling and transplantation in the injured peripheral nerve and spinal cord of experimental animals and human subjects.

Authoritative and practical, Schwann Cells: Methods and Protocols aims to aid both experienced and new investigators to make progress in their research endeavors involving Schwann cells.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, USA

    Paula V. Monje

  • Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, Newark, USA

    Haesun A. Kim

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Schwann Cells

  • Book Subtitle: Methods and Protocols

  • Editors: Paula V. Monje, Haesun A. Kim

  • Series Title: Methods in Molecular Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7649-2

  • Publisher: Humana New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Protocols

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-7648-5Published: 16 March 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-9254-6Published: 10 December 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-7649-2Published: 15 March 2018

  • Series ISSN: 1064-3745

  • Series E-ISSN: 1940-6029

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 488

  • Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 68 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cell Biology

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 159.99
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