RABINOVITCH PROTOCOL MANUAL
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SECTION 1   Lab Safety.. 8

Tissue Culture Safety.. 9

Chemical Safety.. 10

Chemical control 10

Chemical Spills. 11

Chemical Spill Basics. 11

Major Chemical Spills. 11

Minor Chemical Spills. 12

Chemical Waste. 13

Routine Chemical Collection. 13

Do I have a Hazardous Waste?. 13

Preparing Chemical Waste for Pickup and Disposal 13

What if it's an unknown?. 14

Instructions for LSS. 15

Radiation Safety.. 17

Fire Safety.. 18

Earthquake Safety.. 19

Needle Sticks. 20

Problems with Cooling, Heating, the Building or Scientic Instruments. 21

Chilled Water Failure in Flow Cytometry Room.. 21

General Heating, Cooling, Fumehood, or Building Problems: 21

Autoclave Failure. 21

Scientific Equipment Repair. 21

Laminar Flow Hood in TC.. 21

Telephone Problems. 21

Hospital Laundry. 21

SECTION 2  Record Keeping, Animal Use  AND Computer Use. 22

Lab Notebook.. 23

Frozen Cell Lines Log.. 24

ParafFin block Log.. 25

Computer Use. 26

Electronic Mail (EMAIL) 27

Animal Protocols. 29

SECTION 3 TISSUE CULTURE. 30

Tissue Culture Media Preparation.. 31

MCDB 1531( liter). 31

L-15 (1 liter). 31

Barrett's Media Preparation.. 32

Counting cells. 34

Calculation of Population doulbing.. 35

Esophageal Squamous Cell Media.. 36

Feeding Cells. 37

Freezing Cells. 38

Thawing Frozen Cells. 39

Starting Primary Cultures from Barrett’s Esophagus Biopsies. 40

Set up of Esophageal Squamous cultures. 41

Soft Agar Assay for Colony Formation.. 42

Freezing Whole Tissue. 43

Lymphocyte Preparation from  Whole Blood.. 44

Preparation of Mouse Embryo Fibroblast Cell Strains. 46

Genotyping: 46

Fixation and embedding cultured cells in agarose for paraffin.. 47

Section 4 Maintenance and calibration of Incubators.. 48

Changing the CO2 Tanks. 49

Testing CO2 levels in the incubators. 50

Section 5 Flow protocols For Apoptosis and Proliferative Survival.. 51

Hoechst 33342/SYTO 11 Protocol for Apoptosis. 52

Hoechst 33342/SYTO 11/CMXRosamine Protocol for Apoptosis. 53

Hoechst 33342/SYTO 11/PI Protocol for Apoptosis. 54

Hoechst 33342/SYTO 11/PI/CEN Protocol  for Apoptosis. 55

Processing data by the Hoechst 33342/SYTO 11/PI/CEN Protocol for Apoptosis. 56

Hoechst 33342/MTG/CMXRosamine Protocol for Apoptosis. 58

Proliferative Survival Protocol. 59

Processing data for the Proliferative Survival Protocol 60

Section 6 Protocols for FISH and Antibody Stains.. 64

Slide preparation for sorts. 65

Deparaffinization of tissues on slides. 66

MPM-2/DAPI Protocol. 67

Assay for Detection of Cyclin B by Flow Cytometry (small cell number) 69

Double Staining with Cyclin B and Pericentrin (sequential staining) 70

Epi shake off procedure to isolate G1 cells for FISH and G2 cells for anaphase bridge scoring.. 71

Epi shake off: isolation of epithelial cells. 72

Tissue Digestion and CK Staining.. 74

Using a Counting Chamber. 76

Slide Fixation for CK-sorted cells dropped from Flow Cytometer.. 79

Fixation of Sorted Cells for FISH.. 80

FISH PROTOCOL – BAC PROBES. 81

Digoxigenin Labeling of BAC DNA for FISH.. 83

Preparation, dropping, and fixing of lymphocyte metaphase slides. 84

FISH work on sorted cells. 86

Staining of Tissue OR CELLS WITH CATALASE (can be used for most antibody stains) 92

Day 1. 92

Day 2. 93

RC DC Assay Protein Quantification.. 94

OXYBLOT PROTEIN OXIDATION DETECTION.. 95

DNPH Derivatization. 96

Immunostaining. 97

Section 7 Protocols to evaluate telomere length.. 98

Preparation of Tissue for Telomere Probe. 99

Light fixation of fresh or frozen tissue. 99

Slide Deparaffinization. 99

Hybridization PNA and Amadate Probes. 100

Confocal Microscope set up for photos. 103

General guidelines for Leica. 103

General Guidelines for BioRad (scanning confocal microscope in the Immunology Cell Analysis Facility). 104

Protocol For Image Analysis Using  Optimas 6.51. 106

EXCEL MACRO INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF OPTIMAS DATA.. 107

TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT (TRF) PROTOCOL. 108

Q-PCR for Telomeres. 112

Using ABI PRISM 7900. 115

Section 8 BAC cloning protocols.. 116

BAC Prep. 117

Plasmid Mini-Prep:  Preparation of BAC DNA for analytical purposes. 118

Transformation.. 119

BACs containing GAPDH.. 120

Section 9  Flow Protocols for Cell Cycle, Proliferation, Viability and Coast Sea Food. 123

Viable Hoescht 33342 Stain.. 124

BrdU/Ho/Eb.. 125

BrdU.. 126

BrdU - Ab.. 127

Single Step BrdU Protocol 127

Two Step BrdU Protocol 127

Three Step BrdU Protocol 128

DAPI Staining.. 130

Fresh cells in suspension: 130

Tissues: 130

Cells from Paraffin: 130

KI-67 staining.. 132

Hoescht/Fluorescein Diacetate (FDA)/Propidium Iodide (PI) 136

Method A.. 136

Method B.. 136

Coast Seafood Sample Protocol. 137

Section 10 Protocols for Arrays and RNA preps for Arrays.. 138

Basic RNA extraction detailed protocol. 139

RNA Extraction from Pancreatic Tissue (LiCl/RNeasy combination method) 140

General Instructions for Bioanalyzer RNA.. 142

Preparation of cDNA from total RNA (Reverse Transcription, RT) 144

ENZO RNA prep for generation of cRNA.. 145

Fragmentation. 147

Hybridization cocktail 147

AFFYmetrix RNA prep for generation of cRNA using IVT kit.. 148

Fragmentation. 150

Hybridization cocktail 150

Section 11  Macros, SAM, GeneTraffic hints.. 153

Entropy Macro.. 154

Entropy Macro “SID.xlm” (general purpose). 155

Entropy Macro “SID.xlm” (Telomere arm gain_loss, centromere gain_loss).