Flow Chamber Cell Culture
Cells can be cultivated on a simple polystyrene sheet before being placed in the culture chamber.
Flow chamber cell culture. Like usual well plates or microscope slides it can be functionalized and used according to existing protocols. Serial connection of flow chambers pdf an 31. Ebers offers perfusion and vascular culture packages fully customizable to cover the needs of each researcher. Electronic circuitry and microcontroller for regulating temperature as well as handling the in output stream for the ui.
Provided is a flow through cell culture chamber having an internal chamberor containing cultured cells defined in part by transparent cover slips. This helps to connect the ibidi perfusion sets to the flow chamber. The cell culture medium flows driven by an external peristaltic pump from an external reservoir into the device. Fastening and retainer structures are utilized to.
Permanox plastic nunclon delta treated or soda lime glass cell culture treated. Changes in cell cell contacts of endothelial cells huvec under long term shear stress conditions pdf. Clear polystyrene with top handle for aseptic manipulations. The setup in a general use case is as follows figure 2.
The first live cell imaging chambers were designed and built shortly after mammalian cell culture techniques were developed in the early twentieth century. The spreading of cfd analysis leads to more sophisticated chamber geometries. The aim to setup a flow chamber with a well controlled flow field within a standard cell culture multidish is achieved. The device must be biocompatible in the sense that it does not harm the growth of cells and can be cleaned to remove contaminants.
Soda lime glass rs treated to aid cell. Therefore further improvement of the flow channel chamber design and following stabilization of the flow field as by the intricate use of gravitational force to pump the fluid through the flow channel are necessary. Download the whole cell culture under flow application guide as a pdf here. The culture chamber includes a culture chamber which hosts scaffolds and cells as well as all the necessary accessories to carry out a tissue engineering culture including tubing reservoir and connectors.
Also keep in mind that the pump only supplies an air pressure between 95 mbar and 95 mbar. Clear polystyrene with no handle to facilitate microscopic viewing. The shear flow chamber has been designed to expose adherent cells to flow induced shear stress. This means that the flow resistance must not be too high.
The complete system must be compatible with and fit on a standard light microscope stage. Serial connection of µ slide vi 0 4 pdf webinars. Which shear stress should be applied to endothelial cells. Most of these early chambers utilized a wick to control the flow of medium through glass vessels or cork housings with glass windows.
Flow chamber with optical access.