Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC) 2 articles published in JoVE Biology Immunophenotyping and Cell Sorting of Human MKs from Human Primary Sources or Differentiated In Vitro from Hematopoietic Progenitors Andrea Acebes-Huerta1, Patricia Martínez-Botía1, Cristina Martín Martín2, Ángel Bernardo1,3, Adrián R. Rodríguez1, María Carmen Vicente-Ayuso4, Celina Benavente Cuesta5, Laura Gutiérrez1,6 1Platelet Research Lab, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Principado de Asturias (ISPA), 2Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting Platform (ISPA), 3Clinical Diagnosis Laboratory - Dept. of Hematology, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias (HUCA), 4Department of Hematology, Hospital Universitario Severo Ochoa (HUSO), 5Department of Hematology, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos (IdISSC), Hospital Clínico San Carlos (HCSC), 6Dept. of Medicine, University of Oviedo Here, we present an immunophenotyping strategy for the characterization of megakaryocyte differentiation, and show how that strategy allows the sorting of megakaryocytes at different stages with a fluorescence-activated cell sorter. The methodology can be applied to human primary tissues, but also to megakaryocytes generated in culture in vitro. Neuroscience Live Imaging Followed by Single Cell Tracking to Monitor Cell Biology and the Lineage Progression of Multiple Neural Populations Rosa Gómez-Villafuertes*1,2,3, Lucía Paniagua-Herranz*1,2,3, Sergio Gascon*4,5, David de Agustín-Durán1,2,3, María de la O Ferreras1,2,3, Juan Carlos Gil-Redondo1,2,3, María José Queipo1,2,3, Aida Menendez-Mendez1,2,3, Ráquel Pérez-Sen1,2,3, Esmerilda G. Delicado1,2,3, Javier Gualix1,2,3, Marcos R. Costa6, Timm Schroeder7, María Teresa Miras-Portugal1,2,3, Felipe Ortega1,2,3 1Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department, Faculty of Veterinary medicine, Complutense University, 2University Institute for Neurochemistry Research (IUIN), 3Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico San Carlos (IdISSC), 4Institute of Stem Cell Research, Helmholtz Center Munich, Neuherberg/Munich, Germany Physiological Genomics, Biomedical Center, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, 5Toxicology and Pharmacology Department, Faculty of Veterinary medicine, Complutense University, 6Brain Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, 7Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich A robust protocol to monitor neural populations by time-lapse video-microscopy followed by software-based post-processing is described. This method represents a powerful tool to identify biological events in a selected population during live imaging experiments.
