Leukocytes Cultured from Small Inocula of Whole Blood and the Preparation of Metaphase Chromosomes by Treatment with Hypotonic KCL
- 1 January 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Stain Technology
- Vol. 40 (6), 333-338
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10520296509116440
Abstract
Leukocytes were cultured from 0.2 ml of whole blood inoculated into 5 ml portions of a medium consisting of Eagle's basal amino acids and vitamins at double strength in Earle's balanced salt solution brought to pH 7.0 with 7.5% NaHCO3, and containing additives: glutamine, 2 mM; penicillin, 100 units/ml; streptomycin, 100 μg/ml; phenol red, 7 μg/ml; fetal or newborn agammaglobulin bovine serum, 15%; phytohemagglutinin M, 2%; and U.S.P. heparin sodium, 20,000 units/liter. Cultures were incubated in closed 60 × 28 mm screw-cap vials, in a gas phase initially of room air, for 3 days at 37 C, with colchicine to make 0.2 μg/ml added for the final 3-5 hr. After incubation, the cells were separated from the medium by centrifugation, the medium replaced by 0.075 M KCI plus 16 U.S.P. units/ml of heparin sodium at 37 C, cells resuspended and allowed to incubate 10 min. Removal of the hypotonic KCI was followed by fixation in methanol-acetic acid, 3:1 (changed twice), spreading cells on slides by the air-drying method, and staining with 1% natural orcein (G. T. Gurr) in 60% acetic acid. Dehydration and covering completed the preparation. KCI, 0.075 M, has been used advantageously in the above way and for cells cultured by other means from skin and other organs of man and other mammals. Combined advantages of the method are: culture of leukocytes from small volumes of whole blood, with very few failures to obtain mitotic cells; a medium which can be stored frozen in culture vials, and which in a simpler form is usable for long term culture of other cell types; and the use of KCI for hypotonic treatment.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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