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CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH
Volume 374, Issue 2, Pages 251-262Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-018-2864-4
Keywords
In situ hybridization; Whole mount FISH; RNAscope; Immunofluorescence; Fluorescent proteins; RNA quantification
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- INI [DC005590]
- University of Iowa
- Decibel Therapeutics
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RNAscope (R) technology provided by Advanced Cell Diagnostics (ACD) allows the detection and evaluation of coinciding mRNA expression profiles in the same or adjacent cells in unprecedented quantitative detail using multicolor fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH). While already extensively used in thinly sectioned material of various pathological tissues and, to a lesser extent, in some whole mounts, we provide here a detailed approach to use the fluorescent RNAscope method in the mouse inner ear and thick brain sections by modifying and adapting existing techniques of whole mount fluorescent in situ hybridization (WH-FISH). We show that RNAscope WH-FISH can be used to quantify local variation in overlaying mRNA expression intensity, such as neurotrophin receptors along the length of the mouse cochlea. We also show how RNAscope WH-FISH can be combined with immunofluorescence (IF) of some epitopes that remain after proteinase digestion and, to some extent, with fluorescent protein markers such as tdTomato. Our WH-FISH technique provides an approach to detect cell-specific quantitative differences in developing and mature adjacent cells, an emerging issue revealed by improved cellular expression profiling. Further, the presented technique may be useful in validating single-cell RNAseq data on expression profiles in a range of tissue known or suspected to have locally variable mRNA expression levels.
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