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SUSPENSION CULTURE
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INTRODUCTION
Animal cell culture is the process of culturing animal cells outside
the tissue (in vitro) .It will continue to grow if supplied with
appropriate conditions and nutrients
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TECHNIQUE OF CULTIVATING ANIMAL CELLS
Excise tissues from specific organ of animals (lung, kidney) under aseptic conditions.
Transfer tissues into a growth medium containing serum and antibiotics in small T-flasks.
These cells form a primary culture that usually attach onto the glass surface of flask in
monolayer form.
The cells growing on support surfaces are known as anchorage-dependent cells.
Some cells grown in suspension culture and are known to be non anchorage-dependent
cells.
Then a cell line appear from the primary culture and known as secondary culture.
Remove cell from the surface of flasks using trypsin and add serum to the culture bottle.
Many secondary lines can be adapted to grow in suspension and are non anchorage
dependent.
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SUSPENSION CULTURE SYSTEM/NON ANCHORAGE
DEPENDENT CULTURE
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BIOREACTOR CONSIDERATIONS FOR
ANIMAL CELL SUSPENSION CULTURES
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Properties of animal cell that set constrains on design of animal cell bioreactor
- more fragile
Require gentler culture condition and control systems that are optimized for lower
metabolic rates.
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REQUIREMENTS FOR A BIOREACTOR FOR ANIMAL CELL
CULTURE
2) supply of nutrients
5) removal of wastes
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REACTORS USED FOR SUSPENSION CULTURE
The reactors used for large-scale suspension cultures are of 3 main
types.
–Stirred bioreactors
–Continuous flow reactors
–Airlift fermentors
• Tissue flasks
– Easy to use for small scale
• Cell factories
– Production of large numbers of cells
– Labor intensive
• Roller bottles
– Good control of gas phase
– Labor intensive
• Hollow fiber systems
– High cell densities, good oxygenation
– Difficult to remove cells
• Spinner flasks
– Mimic a traditional stirred tank reactor
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STIRRED TANK REACTORS
Single use
Membrane bioreactors
AIRLIFT FERMENTORS
Air driven
External and internal loop system
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AIRLIFT FERMENTORS
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SPINNER FLASKS
McLimans' group developed the first "spinner flasks" in 1957.
• Easy to use
WAVE BIOREACTOR
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ADVANTAGE OF WAVE BIOREACTOR
Disposable bioreactor chamber-no cross-contamination, cleaning, sterilization or other
validation headaches.
Seed preparation-Seed culture can be prepared in the final system itself, i.E. Batch can be
started with 100ml and can go to 2000ml.
Perfusion culture option-patented internal perfusion filters enable perfusion of media for high-
density cell culture.
Easy to operate-no complex piping or sterilization sequences. Simply place a new presterile
cellbag on the rocker; fill with media, and add your cells
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PERFUSION CULTURE
– Characterized by the continuous addition of fresh nutrient
medium and the withdrawal of an equal volume of used
medium.
• Need of perfusion
– Product is unstable
– Product concentration is low
• Perfusion technologies
• Enhanced sedimentation
Conical settlers
Incline settlers
Lamellar settlers
• Centrifugation
• Spin filters
External
Internal
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PERFUSION CULTURE
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ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
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HOLLOW FIBER BIOREACTOR
• Intraluminal (Cells inside fibers )
• Extraluminal (Cells outside fibers)
• Fibers are made of a porous material (PTFE and others).
• Permits movement of small molecules (O2, glucose), but not cells
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REFERENCES
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Thank you
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