BMC Developmental Biology

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Electroporation of cDNA/Morpholinos to targeted areas of embryonic CNS in Xenopus

Julien Falk1, Jovana Drinjakovic1, Kin M Leung1, Asha Dwivedy1, Aoife G Regan1, Michael Piper1,2 and Christine E Holt1*

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1 Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DY, UK

2 The Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia

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BMC Developmental Biology 2007, 7:107 doi:10.1186/1471-213X-7-107

Published: 27 September 2007

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Supplementary Figure 1. Distribution of early GFP-expressing cells in the brain and eye and stage dependency of eye-targeted electroporation.

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Supplementary Figure 2. Potential applications of electroporation to other animal models and projection systems.

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Supplementary Methods. Protocol describing the method to create, copy and modify an electroporation chamber.

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Supplementary Figure 3. Shapes of the electroporation chambers and electrodes used.

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