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Microglia are immune cells of the central nervous system (CNS), which play an instrumental role in eliminating invading pathogens and help regulate localized inflammation. They also assist in maintaining homeostasis of the brain microenvironment. Microglia isolation from primary brain tissue can be difficult with poor yields from tissue dissociation which precludes many downstream assays from being efficiently conducted. Recovery of intact microglia for single-cell or next-generation RNA sequencing (NGS, RNAseq) can be a difficult process. The recovery of intact RNA transcripts inside viable cells has its challenges. Here we describe a method to enrich CD11b + microglial cells from brain tissue followed by FACS, for a reliable and reproducible method for the recovery of high-quality RNA from sorted microglia for downstream sequencing.
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Doty, A.L., Oliveria, A. (2022). Microglial FACS for Robust RNA Recovery for Next-Generation Sequencing. In: Deleyrolle, L.P. (eds) Neural Progenitor Cells. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2389. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1783-0_7
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