DNA replication in eucaryotic nuclei. Evidence suggesting a specific model of replication |
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Authors: | H V Hershey J H Taylor |
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Affiliation: | Biology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and The University of Tennessee — Oak Ridge Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Oak Ridge, Tenn. 37830, USA |
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Abstract: | Preimplantation-stage mouse embryos suspended in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) have been used as a model to study details of the response of a simple multicellular system to freezing and thawing. Rapid freezing to ?196 °C kills the embryos unless they have first been cooled very slowly to at least below ?50 °C. The survival of both 2-cell and 8-cell embryos has been found to depend as critically on the rate at which the frozen embryos were thawed as on the rate at which they were first frozen. The damaging consequences of thawing frozen embryos too rapidly have been shown to occur between ?70 and ?20 °C. Finally, the survival of embryos as a function of the time in DMSO prior to freezing and thawing has been compared with their volume changes as a function of time in DMSO. This comparison leads to the tentative conclusion that dimethyl sulfoxide need not permeate the embryos to protect them against freezing damage. Overall, the embryos' response to freezing and thawing is qualitatively similar to that displayed by many other cell types. |
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