Table 1.
Transfection levels* | |||||
Voltage | +++ | ++ | + | None | Dead |
30 (n = 77†) | 72 (94%) | 3 (4%) | - | - | 2 (3%) |
20 (n = 16) | 2 | 8 | 5 | 1 | - |
10 (n = 16) | - | - | 5 | 11 | - |
Injection of 0.7 mg/ml each pHuc:GAL4/pUAS:EGFP into the lateral forebrain and ventricle was followed by two manually applied trains of five 1 ms pulses at the indicated voltage. Transfection levels were greatly decreased with voltages lower than 30 V. *Embryos were viewed dorsally under a compound fluorescence microscope and categorized according to extent of transgene expression: +++, similar to Figure 2a or higher; ++, intermediate levels; +, few enough cells to make out and count individually, fewer than 20. †Of 80 embryos electroporated in 2 experiments, 3 were killed by mechanical damage during removal from agarose and are not included.