Upstream Intensification with High-Density Cell Cryopreservation

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-21
1986 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 715-718 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae Gu Pan ◽  
Moo Young Kwak ◽  
Joon Shick Rhee

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vytaute Starkuviene ◽  
Stefan M. Kallenberger ◽  
Nina Beil ◽  
Tautvydas Lisauskas ◽  
Bastian So-Song Schumacher ◽  
...  

Due to high associated costs and considerable time investments of cell-based screening, there is a strong demand for new technologies that enable preclinical development and tests of diverse biologicals in a cost-saving and time-efficient manner. For those reasons we developed the high-density cell array (HD-CA) platform, which miniaturizes cell-based screening in the form of preprinted and ready-to-run screening arrays. With the HD-CA technology, up to 24,576 samples can be tested in a single experiment, thereby saving costs and time for microscopy-based screening by 75%. Experiments on the scale of the entire human genome can be addressed in a real parallel manner, with screening campaigns becoming more comfortable and devoid of robotics infrastructure on the user side. The high degree of miniaturization enables working with expensive reagents and rare and difficult-to-obtain cell lines. We have also optimized an automated imaging procedure for HD-CA and demonstrate the applicability of HD-CA to CRISPR-Cas9- and RNAi-mediated phenotypic assessment of the gene function.


1995 ◽  
Vol 269 (5) ◽  
pp. C1133-C1139 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Failli ◽  
C. Ruocco ◽  
R. De Franco ◽  
A. Caligiuri ◽  
A. Gentilini ◽  
...  

Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) is a key mitogen for hepatic stellate cells (HSC) and has been shown to be implicated in liver tissue repair and fibrogenesis. In this study the relationship between PDGF-induced intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) increase and mitogenesis in cultured human HSC was evaluated. In high-density cell cultures (80-90% subconfluence), PDGF induced a significant increase in [Ca2+]i, characterized by a short-lasting peak phase, which was followed by a long-lasting plateau phase. The plateau phase was abolished in the absence of extracellular Ca2+. However, in low-density cell cultures (30-40% subconfluence), the plateau phase was absent or markedly less pronounced. In parallel sets of experiments, PDGF was significantly less effective in inducing mitogenesis in low-density cell cultures than in high-density cell cultures and was totally ineffective in the absence of extracellular Ca2+. These results suggest that 1) spatial and time dynamics of PDGF-induced [Ca2+]i increase are dependent on cell density and 2) PDGF-induced mitogenesis requires extracellular Ca2+ influx.


2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (7) ◽  
pp. 1436-1449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christophe Provin ◽  
Kiyoshi Takano ◽  
Yasuyuki Sakai ◽  
Teruo Fujii ◽  
Ryo Shirakashi

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