Here, we describe how to produce, expand, and immunolabel postnatal hippocampal neural progenitor cells (NPCs) in three-dimensional (3D) culture. Next, using hybrid visualization technologies, we demonstrate how digital images of immunolabelled cryosections can be used to reconstruct and map the spatial position of immunopositive cells throughout the entire 3D neurosphere.
Imbeault, S., Valenzuela, N., Fai, S., Bennett, S. A. Localizing Protein in 3D Neural Stem Cell Culture: a Hybrid Visualization Methodology. J. Vis. Exp. (46), e2483, doi:10.3791/2483 (2010).