Liu Xiao, Tang Luosheng, Liu Yongqing
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, USA.
Department of Ophthalmology, Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China.
Bio Protoc. 2017 Aug 5;7(15). doi: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2429.
Müller cells are the major supportive and protective glial cells across the retina. Unlike in fish, they have lost the capacity to regenerate the retina in mammals. But, mammalian Müller cells still retain certain retinal stem cell properties with various degree of self-renewal and differentiation potentials, and thereby held a merit in cell-based therapies for treating retinal degeneration diseases. In our laboratory, we use an enzymatic procedure to isolate, purify, and culture mouse Müller cells.
米勒细胞是视网膜中主要的支持性和保护性神经胶质细胞。与鱼类不同,在哺乳动物中它们已经失去了视网膜再生能力。但是,哺乳动物的米勒细胞仍然保留了一定的视网膜干细胞特性,具有不同程度的自我更新和分化潜能,因此在基于细胞的视网膜退行性疾病治疗中具有优势。在我们实验室,我们采用酶法来分离、纯化和培养小鼠米勒细胞。