A non-destructive culturing and cell sorting method for cardiomyocytes and neurons using a double alginate layer.

A non-destructive method of collecting cultured cells after identifying their in situ functional characteristics is proposed. In this method, cells are cultivated on an alginate layer in a culture dish and released by spot application of a calcium chelate buffer that locally melts the alginate layer...

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Main Authors: Hideyuki Terazono, Hyonchol Kim, Masahito Hayashi, Akihiro Hattori, Fumimasa Nomura, Tomoyuki Kaneko, Kenji Yasuda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22870332/?tool=EBI