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Generation of pancreatic ductal organoids and whole-mount immunostaining of intact organoids

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2018

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organoids, pancreatic ductal cells, whole-mount immunostaining

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Traditionally, studies of cells and tissues have been performed on isolated primary cells or immortalized cell lines by culturing them in 2D culture dishes or flasks. However, a caveat regarding 2D culture is that the cells poorly recapitulate their in vivo counterparts, mainly due to a lack of 3D cell-cell and cell–extracellular matrix interactions. In recent years, the development of in vitro organoids as 3D culture has gained substantial attention as a model to study different tissues. In adults, pancreatic ductal cells are considered as a source of stem or progenitor cells, so developing new methods to study ductal cells would be useful. Here, we provide a protocol to isolate mouse pancreatic ductal cells and a cost-effective protocol to generate 3D organoid structures from such ductal cells. Additionally, we have devised a protocol for immunostaining of intact whole organoids without sectioning.

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Rezanejad, H., Lock, J. H., Sullivan, B. A, & Bonner-Weir, S. (2018). Generation of pancreatic ductal organoids and whole-mount immunostaining of intact organoids. Current Protocols in Cell Biology, 83, e82. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpcb.82

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