Establishment of a ciliated epithelial cell line from human Fallopian tube

Autor: Shigehiko Mizutani, Shigeru Toda, Fumitaka Kikkawa, Hisao Ando, Tetsuo Masahashi, Miya Kobayashi
Rok vydání: 2000
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Zdroj: Human Reproduction. 15:1597-1603
ISSN: 1460-2350
0268-1161
Popis: Human tubal epithelial cells in primary culture were transfected with simian virus 40 (SV40) large T antigen plasmid, and an immortalized ciliated cell line, named as NT/T-S, was established without crisis. Transmission electron microscopy proved that NT/T-S cells had cilia, microvilli, junctional complexes, rough endoplasmic reticula, free ribosomes and microtubules. NT/T-S cells were evaluated preliminarily on the basis of co-culture study using surplus embryos at the 4- to 8-cell stage in our IVF and embryo transfer programme. All of the 133 embryos had >/=10% fragments (based on the surface area) and were unworthy of cryopreservation. Up to 57% (16/28) of the embryos with 10-30% fragments reached the blastocyst stage by co-culture. In contrast, blastocyst formation was observed in
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