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Neuronal cell culture in vitro
Kohoutová, Šárka ; Bařinka, Cyril (advisor) ; Pavlíček, Jiří (referee)
Neuronal cell cultures are in vitro cultures of dissociated neurons that have become an essential part of many neurobiological experiments in the last century. Cultured neurons not only allow to answer questions about their physiology under complex in vivo conditions, but also can serve as a model of neurodegenerative diseases. Neuronal cells can either be isolated directly from the nervous tissue of animals at the prenatal or adult stage of development, or they can be obtained through targeted manipulations of stem cells and secondary cell lines that lead to their neuronal differentiation. Primary neurons are considered the gold standard of neurobiological research not only because of their long tradition of cultivation, but also because primary neurons retain typical neuronal properties under in vivo conditions. There are several disadvantages associated with primary neurons, including the fact that fully differentiated neurons do not proliferate and are relatively demanding in terms of culture conditions For this reason, their role is often replaced by mitotically active secondary cell lines or stem cells. This bachelor thesis summarizes the knowledge about cell cultures used to study the functions of neuronal cells and highlights the advantages and disadvantages of their use. Key words Primary...
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Creating a biosensor for miRNA effector complex formation using CRISPR nucleases
Petržílek, Jan ; Svoboda, Petr (advisor) ; Petr, Jaroslav (referee)
miRNAs are small regulatory RNAs, which function as post-transcriptional mRNA regulators. They direct ribonucleoprotein complexes to cognate mRNA to repress them by translational inhibition and degradation. miRNAs regulate thousands of mRNAs in mammals and have been recognized as regulatory factors in most cellular and developmental processes. Dysregulation of the miRNA pathway can lead to severe defects and diseases. Interestingly, a unique situation exists in mouse oocytes, where all the miRNA pathway components are present, yet the pathway is dispensable and nonfunctional, the molecular foundation of this phenomenon and its significance still remain unclear. In spite of the pronounced effects of the miRNA pathway in gene regulation in somatic cells, study strategies of the pathway bare limitations. Current methods for studying the activity of the miRNA pathway employ corelative studies (such as NGS) or reporter assays, which have relatively low throughput and are prone to artifacts. Here, I present design and development of a new strategy for directly monitor global miRNA pathway activity and integrity in near physiological conditions in living cells, which could also be employed in vivo for studies of mouse oocytes. The strategy is based on fluorescently tagged endogenous proteins of the...
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Gene manupulations in invertebrates
Čermáková, Eliška ; Schierová, Michaela (advisor) ; Konopásek, Ivo (referee)
Gene manipulations in invertebrates are based on the same approches used in vertebrates. The are applied for the development of new genotypes in model species, convenient as model systems of human hereditary diseases etc. Gene manipulations are important as well for practical purposes, which is shown by the example of trangenic mosquitoes. Recently, it has been proved that programmable nucleases can be successfully used in invertebrates. Key words: Gene manipulations, invertebrates, methods, applications, Drosophila melanogaster, Anopheles, Bombyx mori, malaria
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Biological mechanisms of function of the HIC1 tumor suppressor
Hlavatá, Adéla ; Kořínek, Vladimír (advisor) ; Macůrková, Marie (referee)
The tumor suppressor gene HIC1 encodes a BTB/POZ transcription repressor. Its promotor is frequently hypermetylated in large numbers of tumors. HIC1 also functions as a negative modulator of the Wnt signalling pathway, which fundamentally participates in regulation of stem cell renewal of the intestinal epithelium. Thanks to its structural features the intestinal epithelium represents a convenient model tissue to study stem cells and their pathology. To overcome the embryonic lethality of the complete Hic1 "knock-out" the conditional deletion of the gene in adult mouse tissue was chosen to evaluate the Hic1 biological aktivity. By the chip expression analysis of mouse embryonic fibroblasts we discovered a number of new target genes of Hic1, the most interesting of them - in respect to cancer - we considered the Toll-like receptor 2 gene. The expression of Hic1 target genes is likely to be co-regulated by p53 although the direct regulation wasn't proved. Hic1 affects the proportion of the differentiated intestinal epithelial cells types possibly via regulation of Atoh1. After conditional deletion of Hic1 in the intestinal epithelium we observed and quantitatively confirmed a significant increase of the amounts of goblet cells. We concluded that Hic1 affects differentiation pathways in intestinal...
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