Osteoblast isolation from murine calvaria and long bones

Authors
Publication date 2012
Host editors
  • M.H. Helfrich
  • S.H. Ralston
Book title Bone Research Protocols
ISBN
  • 9781617794148
  • 9781493961009
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781617794155
Series Methods in Molecular Biology
Edition 2nd
Pages (from-to) 19-29
Publisher New York: Humana Press
Organisations
  • Faculty of Dentistry (ACTA)
Abstract This chapter describes the isolation of primary mouse osteoblasts from adult mouse calvaria and long bones, as well as the process of isolation of bone cells from neonatal mouse calvaria. Osteoblasts from adult mouse bone are obtained as outgrowth from collagenase-treated bone pieces. Isolation of osteoblasts from neonatal calvaria is achieved by sequential enzymatic digestion of the bone matrix. Because of differences in origin and isolation method, each of the primary bone cell cultures described will have their own characteristics.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-415-5_2
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