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Use of Primary Cultured Hippocampal Neurons to Study the Assembly of Axon Initial Segments
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Neuroscience
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JoVE Journal Neuroscience
Use of Primary Cultured Hippocampal Neurons to Study the Assembly of Axon Initial Segments
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06:53 min

February 12, 2021

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  • 00:04Introduction
  • 00:24Culture Hippocampal Neurons
  • 02:37Disruption of AIS by Knockout of Ankyrin-G at an Early Stage of Neuron Development
  • 04:17Quantification of Axon Initial Segment
  • 04:58Results: A Full Rescue of AIS by 480kDa AnkG in ANK3-E22/23-flox Neurons Transfected with Cre

Summary

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Here, we described a protocol to quantitatively study the assembly and structure of the axon initial segments (AIS) of hippocampal neurons that lack pre-assembled AIS due to the absence of a giant ankyrin-G.

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