[Appropriate safety procedures should always be used with this material. Laboratory safety is discussed in the following publication: Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories, 5th ed. HHS Publication No. (CDC) 93-8395. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office (2007). The entire text is available online at http://www.cdc.gov/biosafety/publications/bmbl5/index.htm.]
Biosafety classification is based on U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines, it is the responsibility of the customer to ensure that their facilities comply with biosafety regulations for their own country.
This mouse ES cell line has been shown to be germline competent. 129Sv/J is a parental substrain of 129 strains and has a white-bellied, light chinchilla or albino coat color with pink eyed appearance. This strain is homozygous for Cdh23ahl, the age-related hearing loss 1 mutation, resulting in progressive hearing loss with onset prior to 3 months of age (http://jaxmice.jax.org/strain/000691.html).
Note: To insure the highest level of viability, pre-warm media and Trypsin/EDTA to 37ºC before adding to cells. Volumes used in this protocol are for T75 flasks. Proportionally adjust the volumes for culture vessels of other sizes. A split ratio of 1:4 to 1:7 is recommended.
Feeder Cell Preparation for Subcultures
Dissociation and Transfer of ES Cells
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