liver Protocols

Category: Pharmacology and Toxicology Protocols: Cytotoxicity Protocols: Microorganism Cytotoxicity Assays Protocols

The AMES procedure evaluates the mutagenic potential of test chemicals by their effect on five histidine requiring strains of the bacterium, Salmonella typhimurium in the absence and presence of a rat liver metabolising system. - [Read Ames Test]

Category: Mouse Protocols

Mice fed with the cytohesin inhibitor SecinH3 for two days develop hepatic insulin resistance that can be identified by reduced liver glycogen levels, increased serum insulin and ketone body levels and decreased serum non-esterified fatty acid. To confirm the presence and identity of SecinH3 in mouse liver, we extracted the compound from liver homogenates with chloroform and identified it by LC/MS. - [Read Extraction of the SecinH3 from Mouse Liver Protocol]

Category: Mouse Protocols

Provides two protocols that may be used to isolate IHL. One can be used to isolate IHL from multiple livers in parallel, whereas the more elaborate alternate protocol yields more cells per liver but is more appropriately used to recover the IHL from a single liver. - [Read Isolation of Mouse Intrahepatic Lymphocytes Protocol]

Category: Pharmacology and Toxicology Protocols: Cytotoxicity Protocols: Liver Toxicity Assays Protocols

Collagenase perfusion of rat liver yields a hepatocyte suspension which may be exposed to test compounds in order to assess their effects on cell viability and enzyme leakage. - [Read Isolation of Rat Hepatocytes Protocol]

Category: Pharmacology and Toxicology Protocols: Cytotoxicity Protocols: Liver Toxicity Assays Protocols

Leakage of lactate dehydrogenase and alanine aminotransferase from rat and mouse liver slices exposed to the test compound is used as a measure of hepatotoxicity. - [Read Liver Slice Hepatotoxicity Screening System Protocol]

Category: Cell Organelle Protocols: Subcellular Fractionation Protocols: Microsome Isolation Protocols

This protocol gives instructions for preparing microsomes from a rat liver. - [Read Microsome Purification from Rat Liver Protocol]

Category: Cell Biology and Cell Culture

Microtuble/ organelled motility assay using Golgi or ER membranes, 45 uM tubulin, rat liver cytosol, and 20x energy regeneration system. - [Read Microtubule/ organelle Motility Assays]

Category: Mouse Protocols: Mouse Organ Removal Surgery Protocols

Protocol describes partial removal of a mouse liver to provide tissue for analysis. - [Read Partial Mouse Hepatectomy Protocol]

Category: RNA Protocols: rRNA Extraction and Isolation

Phenol Extraction of rRNA from Rat Liver Tissue. Dr. William Heidcamp. - [Read Phenol Extraction of rRNA]

Category: Developmental Biology: Utilizing Model Organisms Protocols

Nonviral, DNA-mediated gene transfer is an alternative to viral delivery systems for expressing new genes in cells and tissues. The Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon system combines the advantages of viruses and naked DNA molecules for gene therapy purposes; however, efficacious delivery of DNA molecules to animal tissues can still be problematic. Here we describe the hydrodynamic delivery procedure for the SB transposon system that allows efficient delivery to the liver in the mouse. - [Read Preferential Delivery of the Sleeping Beauty transposon System to Livers of Mice by Hydrodynamic i]

Category: Cell Organelle Protocols: Subcellular Fractionation Protocols

The employment of differential centrifugation to prepare crude fractions of subcellular particles from homogenates is often a necessary first step to a subsequent purification of one or more particles on a density gradient. This protocol describes the use of differential centrifugation to fractionate a mammalian liver homogenate but similar methods should be applicable to all mammalian tissues and cultured cells. - [Read Preparation of Crude Subcellular Fractions by Differential Centrifugation Protocol]

Category: Cell Biology and Cell Culture: Hepatocyte Cell Culture

USC Liver Transplant Surgery Program and Center for Liver Disease. Preparation of primary cultures of rat hepatocytes (or freshly isolated hepatocytes). - [Read Preparation of primary cultures of rat hepatocytes (or freshly isolated hepatocytes)]

Category: Cell Organelle Protocols: Subcellular Fractionation Protocols: Membrane Isolation Protocols

This protocol uses a "light mitochondrial" pellet from a mammalian liver homogenate. The gradient thus has to resolve a variety of denser components (peroxisomes, lysosomes, mitochondria) from the Golgi membranes, which have a low density in iodixanol (1.06-1.09 g/ml) [1]. The protocol is specifically tailored to the purification of Golgi membranes from this pellet and is unsuitable for the isolation or analysis of other organelles present in the light mitochondrial fraction. - [Read Purification of Golgi Membranes from a Light Mitochondrial Fraction in a Self-Generated Gradient]

Category: Cell Organelle Protocols: Subcellular Fractionation Protocols: Mitochondria Isolation Protocols

This protocol describes a discontinuous gradient, which resolves the mitochondria from both lighter and denser organelles. Because the centrifugation is carried out for 4 h, diffusion will create a partially continuous gradient and this probably contributes to the resolution of the mitochondria from the lighter lysosomes. - [Read Purification of Mammalian Liver Mitochondria by Flotation Through a Pre-formed Discontinuous Iodixan]

Category: Primary Cell Isolation and Culture Protocols

This method enables the isolation of different populations of liver cells and describes their subsequent culture. - [Read The Isolation and Culture of Rat Hepatic Cells Protocol]

Category: Mouse Protocols: Mouse Cell Culture Protocols

The liver of a rat is cannulated and perfused in situ with buffer, following which it is excised and perfused in a closed system with a collagenase solution. After a period of time the liver begins to break up, at which point it is transferred to a measuring cylinder and culture medium is added. It is then gently agitated to cause the release of cells which are subsequently filtered and allowed to settle out. The parenchymal and non-parenchymal cells form two distinct layers which can be separat - [Read The Isolation and Culture of Rat Hepatic Cells Protocol]

Category: Pharmacology and Toxicology Protocols: Cytotoxicity Protocols: Liver Toxicity Assays Protocols

This method enables the isolation of different populations of liver cells and describes their subsequent culture. - [Read The Isolation and Culture of Rat Hepatic Cells Protocol]