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Isolation of Mouse Respiratory Epithelial Cells and Exposure to Experimental Cigarette Smoke at Air Liquid Interface
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Isolation of Mouse Respiratory Epithelial Cells and Exposure to Experimental Cigarette Smoke at Air Liquid Interface
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10:47 min

February 21, 2011

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Chapters

  • 00:00Title
  • 01:15Dissection of Mouse Tracheas
  • 03:40Isolation of Mouse Tracheobronchial Epithelial Cells (MTEC)
  • 08:25Application of Cigarette Smoke to Cultured Epithelial Cells
  • 09:44Representative Results of Healthy Mouse Respiratory Epithelial Cell Cultures
  • 10:28Conclusion

Summary

Automatic Translation

Pulmonary epithelial cells can be isolated from the respiratory tract of mice and cultured at air-liquid interface as a model of differentiated respiratory epithelium. A protocol is described for isolating, culturing and exposing these cells to mainstream cigarette smoke, in order to study molecular responses to this environmental toxin.

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