University Medical Center Utrecht , Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Zebrafish. 2013 Sep;10(3):316-25. doi: 10.1089/zeb.2013.0866. Epub 2013 May 14.
Over the last two decades the zebrafish has emerged as a powerful model organism in science. The experimental accessibility, the broad range of zebrafish mutants, and the highly conserved genetic and biochemical pathways between zebrafish and mammals lifted zebrafish to become one of the most attractive vertebrate models to study gene function and to model human diseases. Zebrafish cell lines are highly attractive to investigate cell biology and zebrafish cell lines complement the experimental tools that are available already. We established a straightforward method to culture cells from a single zebrafish embryo or a single tumor. Here we describe the generation of fibroblast-like cell lines from wild-type and ptenb(-/-) embryos and an endothelial-like cell line from a tumor of an adult ptena(+/-)ptenb(-/-) zebrafish. This protocol can easily be adapted to establish stable cell lines from any mutant or transgenic zebrafish line and the average time to obtain a pro-stable cell line is 3-5 months.
在过去的二十年中,斑马鱼已成为科学领域中一种强大的模式生物。斑马鱼具有实验可及性、广泛的斑马鱼突变体以及与哺乳动物高度保守的遗传和生化途径,这些特点使斑马鱼成为研究基因功能和模拟人类疾病的最具吸引力的脊椎动物模型之一。斑马鱼细胞系非常适合研究细胞生物学,并且斑马鱼细胞系补充了现有的实验工具。我们建立了一种从单个斑马鱼胚胎或单个肿瘤中培养细胞的简单方法。在这里,我们描述了从野生型和 ptenb(-/-)胚胎中生成成纤维样细胞系,以及从成年 ptena(+/-)ptenb(-/-)斑马鱼肿瘤中生成内皮样细胞系的方法。该方案可以轻松地适用于从任何突变体或转基因斑马鱼系建立稳定的细胞系,获得原代稳定细胞系的平均时间为 3-5 个月。