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1Department of Physiology and Biophysics,University of California, Irvine (UCI), 2Department of Physiology and Biophysics,University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, 3Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute,University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, 4Department of Developmental and Cell Biology,University of California, Irvine (UCI)
Chapters
- 00:45Tools and reagents
- 01:09Dissection procedure
- 05:04Isolation of medullae
- 09:03Enzymatic digestion of tissue
- 16:18Plating cells
Adrenal medullary chromaffin cell culture systems are extremely useful for the study of excitation-secretion coupling in an in vitro setting. This protocol illustrates the method used to dissect the adrenals and then isolate the medullary region by stripping away the adrenal cortex. The digestion of the medulla into single chromaffin cells is then demonstrated.
