IP Library Granted Patent US 8,673,638
Granted Patent B2
US 8,673,638 · App. 13/204,324 · Granted Mar 18, 2014

Cell culture support and cell culture method

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Patent No.
US 8,673,638
App. No.
13/204,324
Granted
Mar 18, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a cell culture support for culturing mesenchymal stem cells, which includes en upper surface including a plurality of wells, in which the upper surface has a root mean square roughness Rq of 100 to 280 nm and a linear density of 1.6 to 10 per 1 μm length.

Claims (21)

1. A cell culture support for culturing mesenchymal stem cells, which comprises an upper surface of the cell culture support comprising a plurality of wells,

wherein the upper surface, which is a portion out of the well, has a root mean square roughness Rq of 100 to 280 nm and the number of a roughness curve crossing an average surface per 1 μm of a length of 1.6 to 3.0,

the cell culture support comprises sintered ceramics,

the upper surface is a non-processed surface after sintering of ceramics, and

a surface of the sintered ceramics has an average particle size of 0.6 to 1.2μm.

2. The cell culture support according to claim 1 , wherein the well has a circular or rectangular opening and an opening size of 70 to 550 μm.

3. The cell culture support according to claim 1 , wherein the well has a bottom surface and at least the bottom surface has a root mean square roughness Rq of 100 to 280 nm and the number of a roughness curve crossing an average surface per 1 μm of a length 1.6 to 3.0.

4. The cell culture support according to claim 1 , wherein two central points of adjacent wells has a distance of 80 to 700 μm.

5. The cell culture support according to claim 1 , wherein the ceramics is zirconia.

6. A method for culturing cells using the cell culture support according to claim 1 , the method comprising;

disposing an upper surface of the cell culture support upwardly in a container;

supplying a first culture medium to the container to permeate the first culture medium by the capillary action to the well opening of the cell culture support;

adding a second culture medium comprising undifferentiated mesenchymal stem cells dropwise to the upper surface of the cell culture support into which the first culture medium is permeated to seed mesenchymal stem cells;

supplying the first culture medium to the container to immerse the cell culture support as a whole in the first culture medium and to proceed aggregation of the mesenchyrnal stem cells;

discharging the first culture medium and the second culture medium except for the mesenchymal stern cells out of the container; and

supplying a third culture medium for inducing differentiation of the mesenchymal stem cells which are aggregated into tissue cells to immerse the cell culture support as a whole in the third culture medium to induce differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells into any tissue cell of hyaline chondrocytes, adipocytes and osteoblasts in the well.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the number of mesenchymal stem cells in the second culture medium is from 1 ×10 4 to 1 ×10 6 per 1 cm 2 of the support.

8. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the tissue cells are hyaline chondrocytes, adipocytes or osteoblasts.

9. The cell culture support according to claim 1 , wherein a porosity of the sintered ceramics is from 10 to 50%.

10. The cell culture support according to claim 3 , wherein the bottom surface of the well has a curved shape or a semicircular shape with a central portion depressed.

11. The cell culture support according to claim 9 , wherein the sintered ceramics have an average pore size of 0.15 to 0.45 μm.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 2, 2024
From: COORSTEK KK
To: COORSTEK GK
Reel/Frame 067565/0354 →
CHANGE OF NAME & ADDRESS Recorded Apr 11, 2016
From: COVALENT MATERIALS CORPORATION
To: COORSTEK KK
Reel/Frame 038399/0880 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 28, 2011
From: KITAGAWA, FUMIHIKO; IMAIZUMI, TAKAFUMI; TAKEI, SHUNSUKE; YAMAMOTO, ITSUKI; TABATA, YASUHIKO
To: COVALENT MATERIALS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 026985/0720 →