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ArticleBiotechnology journal2010

Electric pulses to prepare feeder cells for sustaining and culturing of undifferentiated embryonic stem cells.

Lauren M Browning, Tao Huang, Xiao-Hong Nancy Xu

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Article in Biotechnology journal, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Feeder Layer Cell Actions and Applications.Tissue engineering. Part B, Reviews · 2015
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Lauren M BrowningDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA.
Tao Huang
Xiao-Hong Nancy Xu

Funding

Nanoassay for Realtime Molecular Probing ABC TransporterR01GM076440 · NIGMS · OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY · PI XU, X. NANCY · 2006 to 2010
$1.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM076440NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM076440S1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Current challenges in embryonic-stem cell (ESC) research include the inability of sustaining and culturing of undifferentiated ESCs over time. Growth-arrested feeder cells are essential to the culture and sustaining of undifferentiated ESCs, and they are currently prepared using gamma-radiation and chemical inactivation. Both techniques have severe limitations. In this study, we developed a new, simple and effective technique (pulsed electric fields, PEFs) to produce viable growth-arrested cells (RTS34st) and used them as high-quality feeder cells to culture and sustain undifferentiated zebrafish ESCs over time. The cells were exposed to 25 sequential 10-ns electric pulses (10nsEPs) of 25, 40 and 150 kV/cm with 1-s pulse interval, or 2 sequential 50-mus electric pulses (50microsEPs) of 2.83, 1.78 and 0.78 kV/cm with 5-s pulse interval, respectively. We found that the cellular effects of PEFs depended directly upon the duration, number and electric field strength of the pulses, showing the feasibility of tuning them to produce various types of growth-arrested cells for culturing undifferentiated ESCs. Both 10nsEPs of 40 kV/cm produced by a 10nsEP generator and 50microsEPs of 1.78 kV/cm provided by inexpensive and widely available conventional electroporators, generated high-quality growth-arrested feeder cells for proliferation of undifferentiated ESCs over time. PEFs can therefore be used to replace radiation and chemical inactivation methods for preparation of growth-arrested feeder cells for advancing ESC research.

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Electromagnetic FieldsAlkaline PhosphataseAnimalsCell Culture TechniquesCell ProliferationCells, CulturedCell ShapeCell SurvivalEmbryonic Stem CellsFemaleMaleMicroscopyOncorhynchus mykissZebrafishAlkaline Phosphatase

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PMID20518062
PMCPMC3014325

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