使用异戊烷液氮冷却结合黄蓍胶快速冷冻骨骼和心脏肌肉组织用于组织学、遗传学和蛋白质表达研究。
Rapid Freezing of Skeletal and Cardiac Muscles Using Isopentane Cooled with Liquid Nitrogen and Tragacanth Gum for Histological, Genetic, and Protein Expression Studies.
机构信息
Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
The Friends of Garrett Cumming Research and Muscular Dystrophy Canada, Henry M. Toupin Neurological Science Research Chair, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
出版信息
Methods Mol Biol. 2023;2587:45-53. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2772-3_3.
Histological and molecular genetic evaluation of skeletal and cardiac muscles is an indispensable part of understanding muscle biology and the pathology of muscle disorders. Proper processing of the muscle tissue is a prerequisite for optimal evaluation. However, the processing of skeletal muscle samples often comes with many challenges. One of the commonly used methods of frozen tissue preparation involves optimal cutting temperature compound (OCT compound) embedding. This method is considered optimal for the processing of most of the routinely studied tissue samples. However, the processing of skeletal muscle samples using this method is often unsuitable as it causes artifacts and low DNA, RNA, and protein yield and quality due to the slow freezing of skeletal muscle tissues that allows ice crystals to form. One of the most suitable methods for skeletal muscle tissue processing for histological, genetic, and molecular studies is rapid freezing of freshly collected tissue samples using isopentane cooled with liquid nitrogen and tragacanth gum, which provides distinct advantages in consuming less time, preserving the cell morphology, and helping higher nucleic acids and protein yields. This chapter describes a protocol for rapid freezing of freshly collected skeletal muscle tissues using isopentane pre-chilled with liquid nitrogen and tragacanth gum. Skeletal muscle tissue samples processed using this protocol can be used for histological and immunological staining investigations and studies requiring DNA, RNA, and proteins from these tissues.
组织学和分子遗传学评估骨骼肌和心肌是理解肌肉生物学和肌肉疾病病理学的不可或缺的一部分。适当处理肌肉组织是进行最佳评估的前提。然而,骨骼肌样本的处理常常面临许多挑战。冷冻组织制备的常用方法之一是使用最佳切割温度复合物(OCT 复合物)包埋。该方法被认为是处理大多数常规研究组织样本的最佳方法。然而,由于骨骼肌组织的缓慢冷冻导致冰晶形成,使用这种方法处理骨骼肌样本通常会产生伪影,并且 DNA、RNA 和蛋白质的产量和质量较低。对于组织学、遗传学和分子研究,最适合处理骨骼肌组织的方法是使用液氮冷却的异戊烷对新收集的组织样本进行快速冷冻,并使用胍胶,这在消耗更少的时间、保持细胞形态以及帮助提高核酸和蛋白质产量方面提供了明显的优势。本章描述了一种使用液氮预冷的异戊烷和胍胶快速冷冻新收集的骨骼肌组织的方案。使用该方案处理的骨骼肌组织样本可用于组织学和免疫染色研究以及需要从这些组织中提取 DNA、RNA 和蛋白质的研究。