Lab protocols

A collection of recipes and methods that surprisingly have worked!

Please feel free to copy and distribute, crediting our lab for original creation. Feel free to contact mviap@viapianolab.org to ask for details of the methods or to confirm where they were published. Thanks!


Methods to chracterize the ECM in malignant brain tumors (NeuroMethods vol. 93; 2014)

A collection of general use buffers

Preparation of fixed erythrocytes to reveal ECM in cultured cells

Preparation of brain slices

Measure of TACE/ADAM17 activity

Cell adhesion assay

Immunocytochemistry

Fluorescence immunohistochemistry

Culturing cells on nanofiber scaffolds

Simple immunoprecipitation procedure

Protocols for protein deglycosylation

Antibody coupling to nanoparticles

Myelin preparation from adult brain

Nissl staining of brain tissue sections

Silver staining of SDS-PAGE gels

Classical subcellular fractionation for brain tissue

A primer for stereotaxic surgery in adult rats