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Product Format
frozen
Type Strain
no
Comments
Kinetoplast DNA in dyskinetoplastic strains
Abnormal mitochondrial RNA editing
Growth Conditions
Duration: in vivo, laboratory rat
Protocol: ATCCNO: 30018 SPEC: This strain is distributed as a frozen stabilate. See general instructions for thawing and storage of frozen material before proceeding. Upon arrival remove the frozen ampoule from the dry ice and transfer directly to a 35C water bath. When completely thawed, aseptically remove the material with a syringe and inject 0.2 ml aliquots of the thawed contents of the ampule intraperitoneally into an adult rats known to be free of blood parasites. Draw a drop of blood from the tail of an infected rat. Add 1.0 ml of mammalian saline (0.8% saline buffered to pH 7.0) to the blood and examine a small amount microscopically. If one or more parasites are seen, proceed as follows: collect parasites into a syringe containing a buffered anticoagulant by either cardiac puncture or from the tail vein of the infected animal. Inoculate 0.2 ml of the diluted blood intraperitoneally into an adult rat known to be free of other blood parasites. Repeat the above procedures approximately every 4 days.
Subcultivation
Protocol: ATCCNO: 30018 SPEC: This strain is distributed as a frozen stabilate. See general instructions for thawing and storage of frozen material before proceeding. Upon arrival remove the frozen ampoule from the dry ice and transfer directly to a 35C water bath. When completely thawed, aseptically remove the material with a syringe and inject 0.2 ml aliquots of the thawed contents of the ampule intraperitoneally into an adult rats known to be free of blood parasites. Draw a drop of blood from the tail of an infected rat. Add 1.0 ml of mammalian saline (0.8% saline buffered to pH 7.0) to the blood and examine a small amount microscopically. If one or more parasites are seen, proceed as follows: collect parasites into a syringe containing a buffered anticoagulant by either cardiac puncture or from the tail vein of the infected animal. Inoculate 0.2 ml of the diluted blood intraperitoneally into an adult rat known to be free of other blood parasites. Repeat the above procedures approximately every 4 days.
Hajduk SL. Demonstration of kinetoplast DNA in dyskinetoplastic strains of Trypanosoma equiperdum. Science 191: 858-859, 1976. PubMed: 1251198
Tobie EJ. Loss of the kinetoplast in a strain of Trypanosoma equiperdum. Trans. Am. Microsc. Soc. 70: 251-254, 1951.
Shu HH, Stuart K. Mitochondrial transcripts are processed but are not edited normally in Trypanosoma equiperdum (ATCC 30019) which has kDNA sequence deletion and duplication. Nucleic Acids Res. 22: 1696-1700, 1994. PubMed: 8202373
