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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Laboratory Automation Année : 2011

Fully automated microinjection system for Xenopus laevis oocytes with integrated sorting and collection.

Siegfried F. Graf
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Thierry Madigou
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Ruoya Li
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Christophe Chesné
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Andreas Stemmer
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Helmut F. Knapp
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Résumé

Microinjection is the most flexible transfection method in terms of choice of reagents to inject into cells. But this method lacks the high throughput to compete with less flexible methods like chemical- or viral-based approaches. Various approaches have been pursued to increase the throughput by automating the microinjection process. However, these approaches focused solely on the microinjection itself and disregarded the tasks before and after the injection, which also belong to the critical time path of the whole process, that is, sorting out viable cells from a cell suspension, placing the cell for injection, and collecting the cell after the injection. In the approach with our XenoFactor, we demonstrate a system capable of running the whole process automatically. By optimizing the XenoFactor for Xenopus laevis oocytes, we could demonstrate the successful automated injection. Starting from a suspension with a mixture of defolliculated oocytes at different stages and quality levels, the manual approach requires 1 day in total for the preparation of 400 microinjected oocytes. The XenoFactor takes only 4h for the same amount and delivers injected oocytes of reproducible quality and without the fatigue symptoms experienced during the manual approach.

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hal-00750368 , version 1 (09-11-2012)

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Siegfried F. Graf, Thierry Madigou, Ruoya Li, Christophe Chesné, Andreas Stemmer, et al.. Fully automated microinjection system for Xenopus laevis oocytes with integrated sorting and collection.. Journal of Laboratory Automation, 2011, 16 (3), pp.186-96. ⟨10.1016/j.jala.2011.03.006⟩. ⟨hal-00750368⟩
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