adhesion Protocols

Category: Neuroscience Protocols

Bead aggregation assay to demonstrate presynaptic differentiation induced by the NGL family of cell adhesion molecules. - [Read Bead Aggregation Assay Protocol]

Category: Molecular Biology Protocols: Carbohydrate Protocols

Protocol detects specific cell adhesion to glycolipids resolved on TLC plates. Carbohydrate-Specific Adhesion of Intact Cells to Resolved Glycolipids on TLC Plates. Ronald L. Schnaar~Professor, Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland. Glycotech. - [Read Carbohydrate-Specific Adhesion of Intact Cells to Resolved Glycolipids on TLC Plates]

Category: Cell Biology and Cell Culture

Protocol for cell adhesion. - [Read Cell Adhesion Protocol]

Category: Cell Biology and Cell Culture

Flow assays offer visualization of cell adhesion under wall shear stress. Visualization of the different events of cell adhesion can be quantified by selective image acquisition and subsequent image processing. Flow assays are suited for adhesive events which occur very rapidly in a time scale shorter than that of most static adhesion assays. Also, events subsequent to the initial events can be studied such as cell stabilization and spreading giving some insight into the kinetics of cell-cell. - [Read Dynamic Flow Assay for Cell Adhesion in a Parallel Plate Flow Chamber]

Category: Cell Biology and Cell Culture: Cell Adhesion Protocols

Flow assays allow visualization of cell adhesion under well-defined wall shear stress. Visualization of the events of cell adhesion are quantified by selective image acquisition and image processing. Events subsequent to the initial events can be studied such as cell stabilization and spreading. John T. Patton~GlycoTech Corporation, Rockville, Maryland - [Read Dynamic Flow Assay in a Parallel Plate Flow Chamber]

Category: Cell Biology and Cell Culture: Cell Adhesion Protocols

Many proteins and molecules promote cell adhesion including several cell surface carbohydrate binding proteins. Cell adhesion measurements on 96-well microtiter plate format are difficult due to the shear forces generated by washing the wells. The protocol here introduces the use of a liquid-filled wash chamber that separates unbound cells by gravity. This eliminates uncontrolled shear forces and passage of adherent cells through a liquid/air interface. John L. Magnani~GlycoTech Corporation. - [Read Measurement of Cell Adhesion Under Static Conditions]

Category: Cell Biology and Cell Culture

This protocol focuses on the interactions between L-selectin expressed on neutrophils and PNAd coated onto the plastic surface. The main purpose of the flow chamber assay is to visualize and measure interactions between flowing cells expressing a given adhesion molecule on their surface, and their receptor, either directly coated on the flow chamber lower wall or expressed on a cell monolayer. - [Read Protocol for L-selectin-PNAd Interactions under Flow Conditions.]

Category: Cell Biology and Cell Culture

This protocol introduces the use of a liquid-filled wash chamber that separates unbound cells by gravity thereby eliminating uncontrolled shear forces and passage of adherent cells through a liquid/air interface. The cells are loaded with a fluorescent dye (6-carboxyfluorescein diacetate) for detection although other methods such as radioactive labels malabels may be used. This protocol is also useful for assaying molecules that promote or inhibit cell adhesion. - [Read Protocol for Measurement of Cell Adhesion Under Static Conditions]

Category: Cell Biology and Cell Culture

This protocol describes how to isolate human platelets from whole blood. Isolated platelets are used for static adhesion assays, for flow chamber assays, flow cytometry measurements, etc. - [Read Separation of Platelets from Whole Blood]

Category: Cell Culture Protocols

Includes information on: Cell Isolation Theory ( Tissue Types: Epithelial Tissue, Connective Tissue); Dissociating Enzymes (Collagenase, Trypsin, Elastase, Hyaluronidase, Papain, Chymotrypsin, Deoxyribonuclease I, Neutral Protease (Dispase), Trypsin Inhibitor (Soybean)); Cell Isolation Techniques: Working With Enzymes, Basic Primary Cell Isolation, Equilibration with 95%O2:5%CO2, Trituration, Enzymatic Cell Harvesting, Cell Adhesion and Harvesting, Trypsin for Cell Harvesting, etc... - [Read Worthington Tissue Dissociation Guide]