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Calcein red orange am

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Calcein Red-Orange AM is a fluorescent dye used in cell biology research. It is a cell-permeant indicator for calcium ions, which is useful for monitoring intracellular calcium levels in live cells. Calcein Red-Orange AM is excitable by visible light and emits a red-orange fluorescence upon binding to calcium ions.

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In vivo Calcium Imaging in Mouse Visual Cortex

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C57BL/6 mice (P25-P33) were anaesthetized with a mixture of Fentanyl (0.05 g/kg), Midazolam (5.0 mg/kg) and Medetomidin (0.5 mg/kg) for surgery and recordings. Surgery was performed as described previously (Ko et al., 2011 (link)). Briefly, a small craniotomy (1–2 mm) was carried out over primary visual cortex and sealed after dye injection with 1.6% agarose in HEPES-buffered ACSF and a cover slip. Fluo-4AM and Calcein red-orange-AM (Molecular Probes) were initially dissolved to 5 mM with 20% Pluronic Acid in DMSO (Pluronic F-127, Molecular Probes) and further diluted with dye buffer (150 mM NaCl, 2.5 mM KCl, and 10 mM HEPES, pH 7.4) to a final concentration of 250 μM and 25 μM, respectively, in the same solution. Oregon-Green Bapta 1-AM (OGB1-AM) was first dissolved to 10 mM and further diluted to a final concentration of 0.9 mM before injection. Dyes were slowly pressure-injected into the right visual cortex at a depth of 150–200 μm with a micropipette (3–5 MΩ, 3–10 p.s.i., 2–4 min) under visual control by 2-photon imaging (10× water immersion objective, Olympus). Experiments started 1–2 h after dye loading. A total of 3 in vivo experiments are presented, one with OGB1-AM (Fig. S3) and two with Fluo4-AM (Fig. 6 and S5).
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Odorant-Induced OSN Viability Assay

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Cell viability was determined by Calcein Red-Orange AM (Molecular Probes, Eugene, OR, USA), which determines intracellular esterase activity(Lichtenfels et al., 1994 (link)). OSNs were grown in 96 well tissue culture plates for 3 days and treated odorants with inhibitors or siRNA against specific pathway in odorant signaling. Cell viability was evaluated using a SpectraMax microplatereader (Molecular Devices Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA) with excitation and emission wavelengths of 567 and 590 nm, respectively.
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Zinc-Induced Calcium Dynamics in NG108-15 Cells

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Twenty-four hours after seeding, NG108-15 cells were loaded for 30 min with calcein red-orange AM (2.5 μg per well; Invitrogen Molecular Probes). Next, the cells were incubated for 4 h with one of the following solutions: (i) basal solution containing (in mM): NaCl, 140; KCl, 3; CaCl2, 2; MgCl2, 1; D-glucose, 25; HEPES/NaOH, 10 (pH 7.4); (ii) K+ solution, same as the basal solution but KCl concentration raised to 50 mM; (iii) Zn2+ solution, same as the basal solution but with added Zn2+ (200 μM); and (iv) K++Zn2+ solution, same as the K+ solution but containing also 200 μM Zn2+. Fifteen minutes after returning the cells to the DMEM incubation medium they were exposed to the fluorescent Zn2+ indicator N-(6-methoxy-8-quinolyl)-p-toluenesulfonamide (TSQ; 0.001% final, added from 0.5% weight per volume stock in dimethylsulfoxide). Ten minutes later, cells were examined and photographed under a fluorescence microscope (Axio Observer.A1, Zeiss). Photographs ( × 20) were taken under identical conditions. Background-corrected calcein red-orange and TSQ fluorescence was quantified for single cells (regions of interest were set using a differential interference contrast image) using ImageJ software (NIH) and averaged for every field of view.
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Investigating GFP-GSC Interactions with HUVECs

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For these experiments we used GFP-expressing GSCs. Initially, HUVECs have been collected and resuspended in an appropriate volume and stained with Calcein Red-Orange AM (Invitrogen). Cells were plated on coverslips in growth medium for 24 h in the presence or absence of necrotic extracts (1 µg/mL). Meanwhile, GFP-GSCs have been treated with digoxin, or acriflavine in normoxic and hypoxic conditions for 24 h. After this time, GFP-GSCs have been collected and plated in the same wells with HUVEC for 24 h. Then, cells have been collected and washed. Glasses have been washed twice and then mounted on microscope slides. Fluorescence was observed by LSM 510 confocal microscope (Zeiss).
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Live HCA Microscopy of Neuroblastoma Cells

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For live HCA microscopy experiments, 8,000 neuroblastoma cells were plated per well in 96-well plates (Grenier, Austria) in full supplemented DMEM and incubated overnight at 37°C, and 5% CO2 before starting neuronal differentiation with RA as described above. For live staining, culture media was removed and replaced with fluorescent dyes mix containing Hoechst 33342 (Merck-Sigma, United States) 1:10,000, CellTrace™ Calcein Green AM (Invitrogen, United States) 1:5,000 or Calcein Red-Orange AM (Invitrogen, United States) 1:5,000, diluted in HBSS. After 30 min incubation at 37°C, and 5% CO2 the plate was transferred to the IN Cell Analyzer 2,200 (GE Healthcare) for image acquisition under cell culture environmental conditions. Twenty images per fluorescent channel (fixed spacing fields) for each well were acquired in two different channels in less than 60 min. All images under a ×20 magnification were taken using the same acquisition protocol with constant exposures for each fluorescent channel. The multiple cell images were subsequently segmented and high content analyzed using IN Carta® Image Analysis Software. Two dimension principal component analysis (PCA) was applied based on morphological features, followed by a ranking of features contributing to the separation in the PCA analysis.
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Isolation and Staining of Human Neutrophils

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All blood specimens from patients were obtained with informed consent according to the institutional review board-approved study protocol at the University of California - San Francisco (Study #21–35147), see Table S2 for demographic information. Fresh samples of peripheral blood from healthy adult volunteers were collected via a 23-gauge butterfly needle collection set (BD #23–021-022) into 10 ml Vacutainer EDTA tubes (BD #366643). Blood was kept on a shaker at minimum setting and utilized within 2 hours of the draw. Neutrophils were isolated using the EasySep Direct Human Neutrophil Isolation Kit (STEMCELL Tech #19666) with the BigEasy magnet (STEMCELL Tech #18001) according to the manufacturer’s protocol.
Isolated neutrophils were spun down at 200g for 5 min and resuspended in a dye media consisting of imaging media containing 5ug/ml Hoechst 3334 (Invitrogen #H3570) and 0.25 uM Calcein Red-Orange AM (Invitrogen #C34851). This cell suspension was incubated at room temperature in the dark for 15 min, and then the cells were spun down at 200g for 5 min. The dye medium was aspirated and replaced with R10 to achieve a final cell density at or below 1×106 cells/mL. Purified neutrophils were then kept in polystyrene T25 flasks (Corning) at 37°C in a 5% CO2 environment until imaging. Cells were used ~5–8 hours post-isolation.
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Fluorescent Staining Reagents for Cellular Analysis

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Fluorophores calcein AM (5–10 μM), Calcein Red-Orange AM (5 μM), LTR (100nM), Fluo-4 (10 μM), Alexa-488–phalloidin, and Rhodamine-phalloidin were purchased from Invitrogen. Human recombinant TNF-α (10–100 ng/mL, BD Biosciences), and BAPTA-AM (100 μM, Invitrogen) were used, as well as FK506 (100 μM), LPS (1–10 mg/kg), cytocholasin D (100 nM), jasplakinolide (100 nM), latrunculin B (50 nM), TB (0.01%), DTT (1 mM), Turk’s solution, and TB, which were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich. Protein A/G-agarose beads were purchased from Santa Cruz Biotechnolgoy Inc. Saponin was purchased from Calbiochem. EZ-Link N-hydroxysuccinimide-SS-biotin (catalog 21331) and streptavidin-Sepharose beads (catalog 20357) were purchased from Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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Quantitative Organoid Proliferation and Invasion

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Primary organoids of the appropriate genotypes were recovered from collagen gel by collagenase IV digestion yielding a single cell suspension as described above at 10 days following viral infection. The cell suspension was FACS sorted (Aria II, BD) for EpCAM+ epithelium (BD Biosciences) and reseeded to collagen in 96-well air-liquid interface culture (BD FluoroBlok) at 10,000 cells per well, n=12 wells/genotype. Calcein red-orange, AM (Invitrogen, Molecular Probes) was used to stain cells at day 14 following replating (following the manufacturer’s instruction). The plate was analyzed by Flexstation II 384 using 577 nm excitation and 590 nm emission filters, respectively with the sum of top and bottom reads to quantitate proliferation and the bottom read only for invasion.
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Intracellular Calcium and IP3 Signaling Assay

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Cells were loaded a few hours before use by incubation with HEPES-buffered saline (HBS: in mM; NaCl 135, KCl 5, MgCl2 1.2, CaCl2 2.5, HEPES 5, glucose 10) containing 1 μM ci-IP3-(propionyloxymethyl) ester (ci-IP3/PM) (SiChem, Bremen, Germany) and 5 μM Cal520AM (AAT Bioquest, Sunnyvale, CA) at room temperature for 60 min. Following this cells were loaded for 1 hr with 5 μM EGTA acetoxymethyl ester (Anaspec, Freemont, CA). For ratiometric experiments, cell were first loaded with Cal520AM, ci-IP3 and EGTA as described above and were subsequently incubated for 45 min with 100 nm calcein red-orange, AM (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA).
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Multimodal Imaging of Bone Marrow Adipocytes

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200 μl of the BM adipocyte fraction from the top of the gradient were transferred to the bottom of a 15-ml conical tube and incubated for 15 minutes at 37°C in the presence of Hoechst 33342 (10 μg/ml), isolectin GS-IB4, Alexa Fluor 488 conjugate (20 μg/ml), HCS LipidTox Deep Red and the cell viability dye calcein red-orange AM (Invitrogen, 6 μg/ml). Cells were diluted in 1 ml 4% paraformaldehyde/PBS and fixed at room temperature for 15 minutes. Following fixation, cells were diluted with 10 ml PBS and centrifuged for 7 minutes at 200xg. 50–100 μl of floating cell suspension were transferred onto the glass slide and overlaid with the round coverslip without sealing. To prevent adipocyte squishing between glass surfaces, a thin glass spacer was introduced at the edge of the coverslip. The slides were carefully inverted and the images were recorded using a Leica SP5 AOBS spectral confocal system. Approximately 30–50% of BM adipocytes appeared viable after 48 hours of ex vivo incubation. For histological evaluation, a small aliquot of isolated BM adipose tissue was transferred onto a glass slide followed by standard Hematoxylin Eosin or Wright Giemsa staining. Images were collected using a VS120 Virtual Slide Microscope (Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, Japan) using a 20x objective.
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