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Cryo Letters ; 36(6): 363-71, 2015.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26963882

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Slow cooling is a cryopreservation methodology where samples are cooled to its storage temperature at controlled cooling rates. OBJECTIVE: Design, construction and evaluation of a simple and low cost device for slow cooling of small biological samples. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The device was constructed based on Pye's freezer idea. A Dewar flask filled with liquid nitrogen was used as heat sink and a methanol bath containing the sample was cooled at constant rates using copper bars as heat conductor. RESULTS: Sample temperature may be lowered at controlled cooling rate (ranging from 0.4°C/min to 6.0°C/min) down to ~-60°C, where it could be conserved at lower temperatures. An example involving the cryopreservation of Neuro-2A cell line showed a marked influence of cooling rate over post preservation cell viability with optimal values between 2.6 and 4.6°C/min. CONCLUSION: The cooling device proved to be a valuable alternative to more expensive systems allowing the assessment of different cooling rates to evaluate the optimal condition for cryopreservation of such samples.


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Cryopreservation/methods , Animals , Cell Line, Tumor , Cell Survival , Cold Temperature , Methanol/chemistry , Mice , Nitrogen/chemistry
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PLoS One ; 8(11): e79073, 2013.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24223883

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Severe hyperbilirubinemia causes neurological damage both in humans and rodents. The hyperbilirubinemic Gunn rat shows a marked cerebellar hypoplasia. More recently bilirubin ability to arrest the cell cycle progression in vascular smooth muscle, tumour cells, and, more importantly, cultured neurons has been demonstrated. However, the involvement of cell cycle perturbation in the development of cerebellar hypoplasia was never investigated before. We explored the effect of sustained spontaneous hyperbilirubinemia on cell cycle progression and apoptosis in whole cerebella dissected from 9 day old Gunn rat by Real Time PCR, Western blot and FACS analysis. The cerebellum of the hyperbilirubinemic Gunn rats exhibits an increased cell cycle arrest in the late G0/G1 phase (p < 0.001), characterized by a decrease in the protein expression of cyclin D1 (15%, p < 0.05), cyclin A/A1 (20 and 30%, p < 0.05 and 0.01, respectively) and cyclin dependent kinases2 (25%, p < 0.001). This was associated with a marked increase in the 18 kDa fragment of cyclin E (67%, p < 0.001) which amplifies the apoptotic pathway. In line with this was the increase of the cleaved form of Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (54%, p < 0.01) and active Caspase3 (two fold, p < 0.01). These data indicate that the characteristic cerebellar alteration in this developing brain structure of the hyperbilirubinemic Gunn rat may be partly due to cell cycle perturbation and apoptosis related to the high bilirubin concentration in cerebellar tissue mainly affecting granular cells. These two phenomena might be intimately connected.


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Apoptosis , Cell Cycle Checkpoints , Cerebellum/metabolism , Hyperbilirubinemia/metabolism , Animals , Astrocytes/cytology , Astrocytes/drug effects , Astrocytes/metabolism , Bilirubin/blood , Bilirubin/metabolism , Bilirubin/pharmacology , Blotting, Western , Caspase 3/metabolism , Cells, Cultured , Cerebellum/cytology , Cyclin A/genetics , Cyclin A/metabolism , Cyclin A1/genetics , Cyclin A1/metabolism , Cyclin D1/genetics , Cyclin D1/metabolism , Cyclin E/genetics , Cyclin E/metabolism , Female , Flow Cytometry , G1 Phase , Hyperbilirubinemia/blood , Hyperbilirubinemia/genetics , Male , Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerases/metabolism , Rats , Rats, Gunn , Rats, Wistar , Resting Phase, Cell Cycle , Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
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