Hum. Reprod. Advance Access originally published online on December 14, 2007
Human Reproduction 2008 23(2):358-364; doi:10.1093/humrep/dem386
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Bulk vitrification of human embryonic stem cells
Reproductive Medicine Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, 58 Zhongshan Road II, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510080, People's Republic of China
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BACKGROUND: The traditional vitrification method cannot keep up with the increased culture and propagation efficiency required to cryopreserve large quantities of vigorously proliferating human embryonic stem (HES) cells. In this study, we describe a newly invented vitrification carrier for cryopreserving large amount of HES cells and evaluate whether this bulk vitrification (BV) method is as effective as the popular open-pulled straw (OPS) vitrification method.
METHODS: HES cell clumps were harvested after passage and transferred to a cell strainer; only those clumps with a diameter more than 70 µm were included in the study and randomly selected to be cryopreserved by the BV method, OPS vitrification or slow freezing method. HES cell survival, growth and pluripotency were analyzed after thawing.
RESULTS: Bulk vitrification method with cell strainer could cryopreserve 136 ± 23.4 cell clumps at one time (round), which was 30 times as high as those for OPS method (4 ± 1.5). After thawing, bulk-vitrified HES cells exhibited high survival rate up to 94.3%, comparable with the OPS method. All surviving cell clumps generated HES cell colonies. Teratomas comprising all three primordial germ layers were formed in severe combined immunodeficient mice after subcutaneous injection of post-thawed, bulk-vitrified HES cell clumps, confirming pluripotency.
CONCLUSIONS: This new BV method could cryopreserve a large quantity of HES cell clumps at one time, which not only would satisfy routine cryopreservation of HES cell during daily culture process but also guarantee researchers have large quantity of efficiently cryopreserved HES cells ready for a scheduled study at any time.
Key words: cryopreservation/human embryonic stem cells/vitrification/cell strainer
Submitted on June 15, 2007; resubmitted on September 17, 2007; accepted on September 20, 2007.
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