Using Laser Capture Microdissection to Isolate Cortical Laminae in Nonhuman Primate Brain

Methods in Molecular Biology
Brian A Corgiat, Claudius Mueller

Abstract

Laser capture microdissection (LCM) is a technique that allows procurement of an enriched cell population from a heterogeneous tissue sample under direct microscopic visualization. Fundamentally, laser capture microdissection consists of three main steps: (1) visualizing the desired cell population by microscopy, (2) melting a thermolabile polymer onto the desired cell populations using infrared laser energy to form a polymer-cell composite (capture method) or photovolatizing a region of tissue using ultraviolet laser energy (cutting method), and (3) removing the desired cell population from the heterogeneous tissue. In this chapter, we discuss the infrared capture method only. LCM technology is compatible with a wide range of downstream applications such as mass spectrometry, DNA genotyping and RNA transcript profiling, cDNA library generation, proteomics discovery, and signal pathway mapping. This chapter profiles the ArcturusXT™laser capture microdissection instrument, using isolation of specific cortical lamina from nonhuman primate brain regions, and sample preparation methods for downstream proteomic applications.

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