Electroporation conditions for primary retinal cell cultures (chick embryo)?

Carlos Guillermo Martinez-Moreno @Carlos-Martinez-Moreno

30 August 2016 0 3K Report

We are trying to transfect primary retinal cell cultures (chicken) with a pCAG (Addgene) plasmid but we have very low transfection efficiency (

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