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1 July 2010 Combined multiphoton imaging and automated functional enucleation of porcine oocytes using femtosecond laser pulses
Kai Kuetemeyer, Andrea Lucas-Hahn, Björn Petersen, Erika Lemme, Petra Hassel, Heiner Niemann, Alexander Heisterkamp
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Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 15, Issue 4, 046006 (July 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3463012
Abstract
Since the birth of "Dolly" as the first mammal cloned from a differentiated cell, somatic cell cloning has been successful in several mammalian species, albeit at low success rates. The highly invasive mechanical enucleation step of a cloning protocol requires sophisticated, expensive equipment and considerable micromanipulation skill. We present a novel noninvasive method for combined oocyte imaging and automated functional enucleation using femtosecond (fs) laser pulses. After three-dimensional imaging of Hoechst-labeled porcine oocytes by multiphoton microscopy, our self-developed software automatically identified the metaphase plate. Subsequent irradiation of the metaphase chromosomes with the very same laser at higher pulse energies in the low-density-plasma regime was used for metaphase plate ablation (functional enucleation). We show that fs laser-based functional enucleation of porcine oocytes completely inhibited the parthenogenetic development without affecting the oocyte morphology. In contrast, nonirradiated oocytes were able to develop parthenogenetically to the blastocyst stage without significant differences to controls. Our results indicate that fs laser systems have great potential for oocyte imaging and functional enucleation and may improve the efficiency of somatic cell cloning.
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Kai Kuetemeyer, Andrea Lucas-Hahn, Björn Petersen, Erika Lemme, Petra Hassel, Heiner Niemann, and Alexander Heisterkamp "Combined multiphoton imaging and automated functional enucleation of porcine oocytes using femtosecond laser pulses," Journal of Biomedical Optics 15(4), 046006 (1 July 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3463012
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KEYWORDS
Laser ablation
Femtosecond phenomena
Luminescence
Control systems
Multiphoton microscopy
Imaging systems
3D image processing
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