live imaging of chicken embryo sections

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live imaging of chicken embryo sections

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hello.  i'm trying to get high detail live confocal images of cross sections
of chicken embryos.  i've been adding a gfp vector, but the transfection
method is giving me a hard time.  i was hoping someone might have
suggestions for alternatives.  general cell morphology is good enough.  

thank you,  matthew
Jason Swedlow Jason Swedlow
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Re: live imaging of chicken embryo sections

Search the CONFOCAL archive at http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal Hi Matthew-

Electroporation of chick embryos is tricky but doable and many labs get it going.  For an example of this type of experiment, there are some useful references:

PMID: 16312219

and a more recent one:

PMID: 18383543

(sorry, these are subscription access only, so am including PubMed IDs as opposed direct links-- go open access!)

These discuss two different ways of introducing fluorophores into sections-- there are many more.

We've recently been working with chick embryo sections electroporated with various FP fusions and directly following cell division and differentitation:

http://dev.biologists.org/cgi/content/full/134/10/1943

If you want any help with these methods, just contact me directly.

Cheers,

Jason



On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Matthew Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:
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hello.  i'm trying to get high detail live confocal images of cross sections
of chicken embryos.  i've been adding a gfp vector, but the transfection
method is giving me a hard time.  i was hoping someone might have
suggestions for alternatives.  general cell morphology is good enough.

thank you,  matthew