scholarly journals DOTAP/DOPE ratio and cell type determine transfection efficiency with DOTAP-liposomes

2015 ◽  
Vol 1848 (10) ◽  
pp. 1996-2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bieong-Kil Kim ◽  
Guen-Bae Hwang ◽  
Young-Bae Seu ◽  
Jong-Soo Choi ◽  
Kyeong Sik Jin ◽  
...  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Mahipal Singh ◽  
Xiaoling Ma

Dermal fibroblasts are useful for production of genetically engineered biologically active factors for development of cellular therapies and tissue engineering products for regenerative medicine. However, their transfection efficiencies using traditional non-viral methods are low and vary based on cell-type and species-specific differences. Using nucleofection technology, here we show that the transfection efficiency of primary fibroblasts established after 0-, 35-, and 65-days of postmortem storage of sheep skin tissues in a refrigerator was 59.49 % ± 9.66 %, 59.33 % ± 11.59 %, and 43.48 % ± 8.09 % respectively, as determined by analysis of green fluorescent protein (GFP) expression. 


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 1524-1534
Author(s):  
Zhiqiang Peng ◽  
Jianping Xiong ◽  
Hanzhi Dong ◽  
Wuping Li

The β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) is coupled with polyethyleneimine (PEI 600 Da) to produce a polymer nanocarrier material (PyD-W) with good biocompatibility and high transfection rate. First, the test was performed to study the influence of different factors on the transfection efficiency of PyD-W materials in terms of cell type and transfection system. Then the effect of adding wheat germ agglutinin on the material-cell membrane binding when transfecting cells by PyD-W materials was studied. The influence of temperature and cell phagocytosis inhibitors on the entire transfection process were taken into consideration at the same time. In the end, the escape ability of PyD-W material carrying plasmid DNA in lysosomes was studied. After analyzing the performance of PyD-W material transfected cells, the appropriate transfection staining conditions was selected to be applied in the study of the inhibitory properties of mouse B-cell lymphoma cells. In the experiment, the results showed that the cell type had a great influence on the material. The N/P ratio should not be set too high. Prolong the transfecting and fostering time appropriately could increase the transfection efficiency. The addition of wheat germ lectin would significantly reduce the enrichment ability on the cell surface of plasmid DNA carried by PyD-W. Increasing the temperature could also increase the transfection efficiency of PyD-W materials, cell phagocytosis inhibitors would not have a significant impact on transfection, and the accumulation of PyD-W materials in lysosomes would be gradually released from lysosomes with time going by. According to the above results, PyD-W carrying plasmid DNA was transfected into mouse B lymphoma cells and normal B cells using similar transfection methods. The results show that B lymphoma cells (38B9) corresponded significant mRNA levels is lower than the mRNA level of normal B cells (P < 0.05). It is detected by cell count and CCK-8 kit that the growth of cells in the group overexpressing PyD-W is significantly inhibited (P < 0.01).


2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitsuhiro Terakawa ◽  
Shunichi Sato ◽  
Hiroshi Ashida ◽  
Minoru Obara

Author(s):  
M.J. Murphy ◽  
R.R. Price ◽  
J.C. Sloman

The in vitro human tumor cloning assay originally described by Salmon and Hamburger has been applied recently to the investigation of differential anti-tumor drug sensitivities over a broad range of human neoplasms. A major problem in the acceptance of this technique has been the question of the relationship between the cultured cells and the original patient tumor, i.e., whether the colonies that develop derive from the neoplasm or from some other cell type within the initial cell population. A study of the ultrastructural morphology of the cultured cells vs. patient tumor has therefore been undertaken to resolve this question. Direct correlation was assured by division of a common tumor mass at surgical resection, one biopsy being fixed for TEM studies, the second being rapidly transported to the laboratory for culture.


Author(s):  
Sunao Fujimoto ◽  
Raymond G. Murray ◽  
Assia Murray

Taste bud cells in circumvallate papillae of rabbit have been classified into three groups: dark cells; light cells; and type III cells. Unilateral section of the 9th nerve distal to the petrosal ganglion was performed in 18 animals, and changes of each cell type in the denervated buds were observed from 6 hours to 10 days after the operation.Degeneration of nerves is evident at 12 hours (Fig. 1) and by 2 days, nerves are completely lacking in the buds. Invasion by leucocytes into the buds is remarkable from 6 to 12 hours but then decreases. Their extrusion through the pore is seen. Shrinkage and disturbance in arrangement of cells in the buds can be seen at 2 days. Degenerated buds consisting of a few irregular cells and remnants of degenerated cells are present at 4 days, but buds apparently normal except for the loss of nerve elements are still present at 6 days.


Author(s):  
G. Rowden ◽  
M. G. Lewis ◽  
T. M. Phillips

Langerhans cells of mammalian stratified squamous epithelial have proven to be an enigma since their discovery in 1868. These dendritic suprabasal cells have been considered as related to melanocytes either as effete cells, or as post divisional products. Although grafting experiments seemed to demonstrate the independence of the cell types, much confusion still exists. The presence in the epidermis of a cell type with morphological features seemingly shared by melanocytes and Langerhans cells has been especially troublesome. This so called "indeterminate", or " -dendritic cell" lacks both Langerhans cells granules and melanosomes, yet it is clearly not a keratinocyte. Suggestions have been made that it is related to either Langerhans cells or melanocyte. Recent studies have unequivocally demonstrated that Langerhans cells are independent cells with immune function. They display Fc and C3 receptors on their surface as well as la (immune region associated) antigens.


Author(s):  
Irene Stachura ◽  
Milton H. Dalbow ◽  
Michael J. Niemiec ◽  
Matias Pardo ◽  
Gurmukh Singh ◽  
...  

Lymphoid cells were analyzed within pulmonary infiltrates of six patients with lymphoproliferative disorders involving lungs by immunofluorescence and immunoperoxidase techniques utilizing monoclonal antibodies to cell surface antigens T11 (total T), T4 (inducer/helper T), T8 (cytotoxic/suppressor T) and B1 (B cells) and the antisera against heavy (G,A,M) and light (kappa, lambda) immunoglobulin chains. Three patients had pseudolymphoma, two patients had lymphoma and one patient had lymphomatoid granulomatosis.A mixed population of cells was present in tissue infiltrates from the three patients with pseudolymphoma, IgM-kappa producing cells constituted the main B cell type in one patient. In two patients with lymphoma pattern the infiltrates were composed exclusively of T4+ cells and IgG-lambda B cells predominated slightly in the patient with lymphomatoid granulomatosis.


2004 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 157-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Nilsson ◽  
Karin Dahlman-Wright ◽  
Jan-Åke Gustafsson

For several decades, it has been known that oestrogens are essential for human health. The discovery that there are two oestrogen receptors (ERs), ERalpha and ERbeta, has facilitated our understanding of how the hormone exerts its physiological effects. The ERs belong to the family of ligand-activated nuclear receptors, which act by modulating the expression of target genes. Studies of ER-knockout (ERKO) mice have been instrumental in defining the relevance of a given receptor subtype in a certain tissue. Phenotypes displayed by ERKO mice suggest diseases in which dysfunctional ERs might be involved in aetiology and pathology. Association between single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in ER genes and disease have been demonstrated in several cases. Selective ER modulators (SERMs), which are selective with regard to their effects in a certain cell type, already exist. Since oestrogen has effects in many tissues, the goal with a SERM is to provide beneficial effects in one target tissue while avoiding side effects in others. Refined SERMs will, in the future, provide improved therapeutic strategies for existing and novel indications.


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