Nucleofection Efficiency of Sheep Primary Fibroblasts Established from Refrigerated Skin

Dermal fibroblasts are useful for production of genetically engineered biologically active factors for development of cellular therapies and tissue engineering products for regenerative medicine. However, their transfection efficiencies using traditional non-viral methods are low and vary based on cell-type and species-specific differences. Using nucleofection technology, here we show that the transfection efficiency of primary fibroblasts established after 0-, 35-, and 65-days of postmortem storage of sheep skin tissues in a refrigerator was 59.49 % ± 9.66 %, 59.33 % ± 11.59 %, and 43.48 % ± 8.09 % respectively, as determined by analysis of green fluorescent protein (GFP) expression.