Fekrije Selimi

New Results doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.07.28.550937 Abstract Oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) are a class of glial cells that uniformly tiles the whole central nervous system. They play several key functions across the brain including the generation of oligodendrocytes and the control of myelination. Whether the functional diversity of OPCs is the result of genetically defined subpopulations or of their regulation by external factors has not been definitely established.

BioTechniquesVol. 74, No. 3 BenchmarkOpen Access Abstract The need to take sex into account in biomedical research is now recognized and mandated by funding institutions. In laboratory rodents, such as mice, sexing is usually performed anatomically or by genotyping using multiplex or simplex PCR techniques on genomic DNA. Here we present a simple RT-PCR-based method targeting Kdm5c and Kdm5d to determine genetic sex in mouse cDNA samples, allowing for retrospective sex determination.