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1Renal Research Laboratory,Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, 2Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Renal Transplant,Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda
Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, 3Renal Physiopathology Laboratory, Department of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences,University of Trieste
Chapters
- 00:05Title
- 01:46Isolation of Primary Osteoblasts
- 03:36All-trans Retinoic Acid Protocol
- 05:05Results: Osteocytes Generation using Retinoic Acid
- 06:31Conclusion
Treatment of primary mouse osteoblasts with retinoic acid produces a homogeneous population of ramified cells bearing morphological and molecular features of osteocytes. The method overcomes the difficulty of obtaining and maintaining primary osteocytes in culture, and can be advantageous to study cells derived from transgenic models.
