TY  - JOUR
TI  - Efficient incorporation of transfected blastodermal cells into chimeric chicken embryos.
AU  - Fraser, R A
AU  - Carsience, R S
AU  - Clark, M E
AU  - Etches, R J
AU  - Gibbins, A M
T2  - The International Journal of Developmental Biology
AB  - The formation of transgenic chimeric chickens for use in developmental studies and as intermediates in the production of transgenic chickens requires the incorporation of stably transfected blastodermal cells into a chimera. To obtain blastodermal cells, area pellucidae of stage X (Eyal-Giladi and Kochav, Dev. Biol. 49:321-337, 1976:E.-G.&K.) embryos were collected from unincubated, freshly oviposited Barred Plymouth Rock eggs and dissociated in 0.25% trypsin/0.04% EDTA (w/v) and 2% (v/v) chicken serum in phosphate-buffered saline (Ca2+ and Mg2+ free) at 4 degrees C for 10 min. The blastodermal cells were suspended in Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium (DMEM) and transfected by lipofection with superhelical pmiwZ, a plasmid containing a hybrid lacZ gene encoding bacterial beta-galactosidase (beta-gal) under the control of a chicken beta-actin/Rous sarcoma virus promoter. A mixture of 2.5 micrograms Lipofectin and 1.56 micrograms pmiwZ in 250 microliters DMEM was incubated for 30 min at 37 degrees C and added to 500 microliters of 20-40,000 cells in suspension. Cells incubated with the transfection reagents in the presence or absence of pmiwZ were either plated and cultured for 48 h at 37 degrees C in 5% CO2/95% air, or injected through a shell window into the subgerminal cavity of White Leghorn stage X (E.-G.&K.) embryos previously exposed to 500-600 rads from a 60Co source, after which the window was sealed and the egg incubated at 38 +/- 1 degrees C for 72 h.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
PY  - 1993
VL  - 37
IS  - 3
SP  - 381
EP  - 385
J2  - Int. J. Dev. Biol.
LA  - en
SN  - 0214-6282
SN  - 1696-3547
UR  - https://ijdb.ehu.eus/article/8292532
Y2  - 2024/05/03/18:35:35
ER  -