Conditioning of karyoplasts for producing somatic nuclear transferred gonadal germ cells in domestic chickens
2008
Kohara, Y.(Tsukuba Univ., Ibaraki (Japan)) | Minematsu, T. | Aikawa, T. | Kanai, Y. | Tajima, A.
The objective of this study was to establish a protocol for generating karyoplasts that can be used to produce somatic nuclear transferred gonadal germ cells (snt-GGCs) in domestic chickens. Karyoplasts were produced by centrifuging cultured fibroblasts from 10-day-old chick embryos at 10,000 x g in the presence of 1.0 microg/ml cytochalasin B. The number of karyoplasts was significantly (P0.05) higher and the diameters of the karyoplasts were significantly (P0.05) smaller when fibroblasts were centrifuged for 60 min than for 10 or 30 min. It was possible to generate snt-GGCs by electrofusion of GGCs with karyoplasts produced from cryopreserved or serum-starved fibroblasts. These results indicate that karyoplasts generated from 10-day-old chick embryos can be used to produce snt-GGCs even after cryopreservation and serum starvation of the fibroblasts.
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