Table 1

In situelectroporation efficiently delivers the construct to the blood islands


Frequency of recovered hematopoietic precursors
Number of recovered hematopoietic precursors per YS
Number of experiments

Whole OrgD3-YS
1/475
10–11
4
Whole OrgD3-YS electroporated without plasmid
1/453
10
3
OrgD3-YS GFP+cells
1/150 (± 57.62)
0.56 ± 0.18 per 0.5 YS (targeted area)
5

Hematopoietic precursor frequency within whole control YS (electroporated without construct) and GFP+ cells sorted from electroporated YS-explants were determined through limiting dilution assay.

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