Canine muscle cell culture and consecutive patch-clamp measurements - a new approach to characterize muscular diseases in dogs

BMC Veterinary Research

Andrea Tipold¹  Wolfgang Baumgärtner¹  Klaus Krampfl¹  Henning Christian Schenk¹ 

[1] Centre for Systems Neuroscience (ZSN), Hannover, Germany

关键词: Animal models;    Dog;    Functional;    Voltage gated ion channels;    Myotubes;   

Others  :  1119660
DOI  :  10.1186/1746-6148-8-227

 received in 2012-04-24, accepted in 2012-11-18,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

The recognition of functional muscular disorders, (e.g. channelopathies like Myotonia) is rising in veterinary neurology. Morphologic (e.g. histology) and even genetic based studies in these diseases are not able to elucidate the functional pathomechanism. As there is a deficit of knowledge and skills considering this special task, the aim of the current pilot study was to develop a canine muscle cell culture system derived from muscle biopsies of healthy client-owned dogs, which allows sampling of the biopsies under working conditions in the daily veterinary practise.

Results

Muscular biopsies from 16 dogs of different age and breed were taken during standard surgical procedures and were stored for one to three days at 4°C in a transport medium in order to simulate shipping conditions. Afterwards biopsies were professionally processed, including harvesting of satellite cells, inducing their proliferation, differentiating them into myotubes and recultivating myotubes after long-term storage in liquid nitrogen. Myogenic origin of cultured cells was determined by immunofluorescence, immunohistology and by their typical morphology after inducing differentiation. Subsequent to the differentiation into myotubes feasibility of patch-clamp recordings of voltage gated ion channels was successfully.

Conclusion

We have developed a canine muscle cell culture system, which allows sampling of biopsies from young and old dogs of different breeds under practical conditions. Patch clamp measurements can be carried out with the cultured myotubes demonstrating potential of these cells as source for functional research.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Schenk et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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