摘要:
Provided is a cell culture apparatus, an apparatus for long-term observation of cell culture, a method for long-term cell culture, and a method for long-term observation of cell culture, which are capable of continuously culturing and observing cells under uniform environmental conditions without aging of the cultured cells' physiological state, and also tracing the history of a cell. The cell culture apparatus comprises a cell culture substrate, a semipermeable membrane, and a culture solution supplier. The cell culture substrate has on a surface a narrow culture groove for holding and culturing cells and wide flow grooves for discarding the cells held and cultured in the culture groove. Both ends of the culture groove are connected to the flow grooves being larger in width and depth than the culture groove. The semipermeable membrane covers the culture groove and the flow grooves. Finally, the culture solution supplier continuously supplies culture solution.
摘要:
To provide a cell culture apparatus, an apparatus for long-term observation of cell culture, a method for long-term cell culture, and a method for long-term observation of cell culture, which are capable of continuously culturing and observing cells under a uniform environmental condition without variation in physiological state associated with aging of the cultured cells, and also tracing the history (genealogy) of a certain cell.A cell culture apparatus comprising a cell culture substrate, a semipermeable membrane, and a culture solution supply means, in which the cell culture substrate has, on a surface thereof, a narrow culture groove for holding and culturing cells and wide flow grooves for discarding the cells held and cultured in the culture groove, the both ends of the culture groove being connected to the flow grooves and the flow grooves being larger in width and depth than the culture groove; the semipermeable membrane is used so as to cover the culture groove and the flow grooves of the cell culture substrate; and the culture solution supply means is capable of continuously supplying culture solution to the cell culture substrate covered with the semipermeable membrane.
摘要:
An apparatus is provided with a cell culture container having a cell culture region made of a hole formed on a substrate, a semi-permeable membrane covering a top plane of the cell culture region and a culture medium replacement part provided over the semi-permeable membrane, a mechanism for supplying a cell culture medium into the cell culture container, and a microscopic optical mechanism for enabling long-term observation of the cell within the cell culture region. This apparatus makes it possible to culture a cell group originating from a particular single cell, to perform culture and observation while identifying cells to be subjected to interaction during the process of culturing cells, and observe a difference in variation between the particular cell and other cells. There is also provided a mechanism which makes it possible to collect only a cell assuming a particular state and perform analysis or biochemical measurement of a gene of the cell, an expressed mRNA and the like.