Ioannou, Elena;
Ruhrberg, Christiana;
(2022)
Whole-Mount Immunofluorescence Protocol for 3D Imaging, Reconstruction, and Quantification of Fourth Pharyngeal Arch Artery Formation.
Methods in Molecular Biology
, 2441
pp. 41-62.
10.1007/978-1-0716-2059-5_4.
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Abstract
Pharyngeal arch arteries (PAA) are formed early during mouse embryogenesis and remodel soon thereafter into the aortic arch arteries. Failure of these vessels to form or remodel results in congenital heart defects. This protocol is designed to study the formation of the PAA using whole-mount immunofluorescence staining, followed by tissue clearing with benzyl alcohol/benzyl benzoate (BAAB) and imaging by confocal microscopy. The fine cellular resolution obtained with this technique allows the embryonic vasculature of the pharyngeal arch artery endothelium to be visualized by surface rendering and quantitatively analyzed by counting the number of endothelial cells in both the PAA and the vascular plexus surrounding them.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Whole-Mount Immunofluorescence Protocol for 3D Imaging, Reconstruction, and Quantification of Fourth Pharyngeal Arch Artery Formation |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-1-0716-2059-5_4 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2059-5_4 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | 3D reconstruction, Endothelial cells, Pharyngeal arch arteries, Surface rendering, Tissue clearing, Whole-mount immunofluorescence |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Institute of Ophthalmology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10145448 |
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