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Bio 272
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Organ culture | Tissue left at gas-liquid interface. Histological structure is maintained |
| Explant culture | Tissue is left at solid-liquid interface and migrates to form an outgrowth |
| Dissosociated cell culture | Disaggregated tissue that forms a monolayer at solid-liquid interface |
| Organotypic culture | Different cells are co-cultured with or without a matrix forming an organotypic structure |
| Disagregation | Use EDTA and trypsin. Or manual |
| Trypan blue | Test for if cells living. Non-dead cells do not stain, while dead cells stain blue. Cell membrane permeable. Vital dyes |
| Metabolic assay substrates | MTT and resazurin |
| What is prestoBlue | Example of a resazurin based dye |
| Dna binding dyes | DAPI, propidium iodide |
| Propidium iodide | Intercalating agent requires a permeabilised cell |
| Longpass emission filter | 580nm |
| Alexa Fluor | green fluorescent dye bound ot agglutining |
| Phenol red | pH indicator. Normal conditions at (7.35). Bacterial contamination acidified the sample. |
| Medium constituents | inorganic salts, amino acids, sugars, ions, trace elements, vitamin, cofactores and ions and glucose |
| Advantages of Serum | Binds and neutralises toxins, complete set of additional growth factors, attachment and spreading factors, binding and transpot proteins; protease inhibitors; buffering capacity; provides trace elements |
| Disadvantages of Serum | Not chemiclly defined; composition varies a lot; source of contamination; increases dificuties and cost of down stream processing; expensive component of the culture medium |