Abstract
Evidence is emerging that the mouse mammary epithelium is arranged as a hierarchy that spans from stem cells to lineage-restricted progenitor cells to differentiated luminal and myoepithelial cells. The use of fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) in combination with quantitative functional clonal assays represents a powerful tool for studying the properties of mouse mammary stem and progenitor cells. This chapter outlines the experimental procedures for generating single viable cell suspensions of mouse mammary epithelial cells, immunostaining cells for flow cytometry, in vitro assays for the detection and enumeration of mouse mammary progenitor cells, and in vivo assays for the detection and enumeration of mouse mammary stem cells.
Michael Prater and Mofna Shehata contributed equally.
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MP, MS, and JS are funded by Cancer Research UK, The University of Cambridge, and Hutchison Whampoa Limited. MP and JS are also funded by the Breast Cancer Campaign. CJW is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Medical Research Council (UK), and the Breast Cancer Campaign.
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Prater, M., Shehata, M., Watson, C.J., Stingl, J. (2013). Enzymatic Dissociation, Flow Cytometric Analysis, and Culture of Normal Mouse Mammary Tissue. In: Helgason, C., Miller, C. (eds) Basic Cell Culture Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 946. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-128-8_25
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