Abstract：
:The number of genetically modified mouse lines has been increasing exponentially in the past few decades. In order to safeguard them from accidental loss and genetic drifting, to reduce animal housing cost, and to efficiently distribute them around the world, it is important to cryopreserve these valuable genetic resources. Preimplantation-stage embryos from thousands of mouse lines have been cryopreserved during the past two to three decades. Although reliable, this method requires several hundreds of embryos, which demands a sizable breeding colony, to safely preserve each line. This requirement imposes significant delay and financial burden for the archiving effort. Sperm cryopreservation is now emerging as the leading method for storing and distributing mouse lines, largely due to the recent finding that addition of a reducing agent, monothioglycerol, into the cryoprotectant can significantly increase the in vitro fertilization (IVF) rate in many mouse strains, including the most widely used C57BL/6 strain. This method is quick, inexpensive, and requires only two breeding age male mice, but it still remains tricky and strain-dependent. A small change in experimental conditions can lead to significant variations in the outcome. In this chapter, we describe in detail our sperm cryopreservation, IVF, and oviduct transfer procedures for storing and reviving genetically modified mouse lines.
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Methods Enzymoljournal_title
Methods in enzymologyauthors
Takahashi H,Liu Cdoi
10.1016/S0076-6879(10)76004-3subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2010-01-01 00:00:00pages
53-69eissn
0076-6879issn
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