This protocol describes transillumination-assisted microdissection of segments of adult mouse seminiferous tubules representing specific stages of seminiferous epithelial cycle, and cell types therein, and subsequent immunostaining of squash preparations and intact tubule segments.
Mäkelä, J., Cisneros-Montalvo, S., Lehtiniemi, T., Olotu, O., La, H. M., Toppari, J., Hobbs, R. M., Parvinen, M., Kotaja, N. Transillumination-Assisted Dissection of Specific Stages of the Mouse Seminiferous Epithelial Cycle for Downstream Immunostaining Analyses. J. Vis. Exp. (164), e61800, doi:10.3791/61800 (2020).