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The SCE assay is therefore biased towards resolved or more corrected metaphases and it is likely that the induced ΔH1 SCE frequency is actually higher than reported here.
The SCE analysis of this cell line was complicated by difficulty in finding chromosome spreads and by the small number of metaphases present in the cultures.
[ 16 ] Fifty metaphases were examined for each patient and scored for numerical or structural chromosome abnormalities.
Many of the metaphases could not be counted, as the chromosomes did not separate under the optimized spreading conditions that worked efficiently for the other cell lines.
Fixed preparations were dropped onto clean glass slides and stained with 0.1 mg/ml acridine orange for 5 minutes, followed by a wash in running water for 2 minutes and a 1 minute incubation in Sorensen's buffer (67 mM KH 2 PO 4 + 67 mM Na 2 HPO 4 ). The wet slides were covered with glass coverslips and metaphases photographed immediately with a Zeiss Axioskop fluorescence microscope using the FITC filter and a 100× objective.