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Blast cells

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immature, undifferentiated cells that become less active and mature into cytes

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Cyte cells

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mature, differentiated cells that can revert back into blasts

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What are the components of cell culture media? (9)

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Water, Balanced Salts, energy molecules, buffering agents, pH indicators, anti bacterial substances, amino acids, vitamins, growth factors

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What is the function of balanced salts in cell culture media?

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provide a physiologic ionic environment and maintain osmotic balance

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What is the function of buffering agents in cell culture media?

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maintain pH of cells around 7.4

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What is the function of phenol red?

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pH Change indicator

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What is the purpose of a biosafety cabinet during cell culture?

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prevent airborne particles from contaminating cells

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What is the purpose of a culture flask?

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maintain a sterile environment and give cells a substrate to bind to

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Why use an inverted microscope to view cells?

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can look directly at cells instead of looking at humidity and other molecules on the top of the glass slide

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What are the 4 common cell culture contaminants?

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bacteria, yeast, fungi (mold), viruses/mycoplasma

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What is the bicarbonate buffer system?

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acid-base mechanism involving the balance of carbonic acid, bicarbonate, and CO2 in order to maintain pH

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What is the most common cell detachment solution?

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trypsin; an enzyme which breaks down proteins and dissociates adherent cells

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What is trypan blue?

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dye used to differentiated between live and dead cells

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What is cell proliferation?

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process that results in an increase in cell number

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What are the pros of in vivo cell culture?

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native 3D environment and all relevant signals present

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What are the cons of in vivo cell culture?

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many variables leading to noisy data and animal rights concerns

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What are the pros of in vitro cell culture?

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simplified models, observe as function of time, study parameters independently

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What are the cons of in vitro cell culture?

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unnatural 2D enviroment, and may lack important signals

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What is an advantage of 3D in vitro cell culture?

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more accurate representation of in vivo cell growth. and more in vivo like w/o animal rights concerns

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What factors affect cell proliferation?

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temperature, nutrients, waste removal, cell type, culture type and in vitro vs in vivo

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primary cultures

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cells isolated directly from living organism, will eventually die off

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Cell lines

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derived from primary cells, shows exponential growth

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Why is the constrained growth model a better approximation of proliferation?

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takes into account things that constrain cell growth such as contact inhibition

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Stem cells

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undifferentiated cells with self renewal capabilities

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reprogrammed cells
differentiated cells that have been altered to become less differentiated
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What is passaging?
removal of the medium and transfer of cells from a previous culture into new culture with fresh medium
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What is expansion during passaging?
moving cells from one dense flask into a larger flask or multiple flasks
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When are cells passaged in an adherent culture?
when the cells cover all the available substrate and have no more room to grow
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When are cells passaged in a suspension culture?
when the cells exceed the nutritional capacity of the medium
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What is the term P1 cell culture
once cells have been re-plated they are termed starting with P1 then P2
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what is senescene?
when cells reach their lifetime limit
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What is Hayflick limit?
the number of doublings that a cell can undergo (typ. 50-70)
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What are the 3 common cell harvesting methods?
bone marrow aspirate, uroepithelial flush out, tissue biopsies
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Bone marrow aspirate
use large needle w/ local anesthesia to withdraw about 2mL of marrow
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Uroepithelial cell flush out
no anesthesia required, repeated filling/emptying w/ isotonic salt solution
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Tissue biopsies
take punch from skin, arthroscopy to harvest, or fluoroscopy and catheter
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Mechanical disruption
vortex w/ digestion buffer, pipet vigorously, dice w/ a scalpel
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Enzymatic disruption
disrupt cell-ecm or cell-cell connections
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Selective adhesion
isolated desired cell types by manipulating adhesion characteristics based on expression of cell surface receptors or adhesion speed
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Cell selection techniques
selective adhesion, differential centrifugation, gradient centrifugation, antibody driven, FACS
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Differential centrifugation
separation of cells entirely based on size and mass
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isopycnic gradient centrifugation
for separation as a function of density only, high density gradient
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rate zonal gradient centrifugation
for separation of particles primarily based on size and shape
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antibody driven cell selection
select a target antigen on cell surface
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fluorescent activated cell sorting
label cells w/ fluorescent antibody and flow through machine to sort
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adherent cells
anchorage dependent and must be cultured while attached to a solid or semi solid substrate
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suspension cells
anchorage independent, can be grown floating in the medium
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Embryonic stem cells
cultured of isolated inner cell mass and/or primordial germ cells
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embryonic stem cell limitations
propensity to form teratomas
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Somatic cell nuclear transfer
take normal oocyte and remove nucleus then replace with nucleus from a somatic cell
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totipotent stem cells
give rise to any of the 220 cell types found in an embryo as well as the placenta
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pluripotent stem cells
give rise to all cell types but not the placental cells
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multipotent stem cells
develop into a limited number of cell types in a particular lineage
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Induced pluripotent stem cells
artificially created stem cells that are forced to express certain genes
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progenitor cells
tendency to differentiate into a specific type of cell but is more specific than a stem cell
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what is stemness
refers to an essential characteristic of a stem cell that distinguishes it from ordinary cells
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chimera
single organism composed of cells from different zygotes
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pros of using stem cells in tissue engineering
stem cells typically reduce and/or eliminate tissue rejection or failure
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cons of using stem cells in tissue engineering
they differentiate too quickly and they can be tumorigenic
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reprogramming cells
goal is to induce differentiated cell to revert back to pluripotency
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transdifferentiation
cells regress to a point where they can switch lineages allowing them to differentiate into another cell type
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dedifferentiation
terminally differentiated cell reverts back into a less differentiated stage
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What factors influence differentiation?
biochemical reagents, changing culture media
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stem cell niches
the microenvironment; specific anatomic location which regulates how they participate in tissue generation/maintenance
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Cell function assays
adhesion, metabolism, migration, proliferation
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transwell membrane assay
used to assess cell migration towards a chemotatic stimulus;
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scratch assay
artificial gap is created on cell monolayer and cells move towards it
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Laminar flow
no mixing between layers; Re < 2100
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turbulent flow
irregular movement of particles; Re > 2400
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Alamar blue reaction
used to assess cell metabolism; add alamar blue, incubate, and measure absorbance
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Calcein assay
measurement of cell viability; cells are incubated in solution and fluorescent cells are imaged

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