BACKGROUND P. aeruginosa is known to cause acute cytotoxicity against various human and animal cells and tissues. METHODOLOGY/FINDINGS Intriguingly, however, in this study we noticed that while a low cell density inoculum of P. aeruginosa caused severe cytotoxicity against human lung tissue cell line A549, increasing the cell density of bacterial inoculum led to decreased cytotoxicity. Additi...

objective: to study the mechanisms involved in amyloid formation processes, we made a mammalian cell culture model of amylin aggregation and characterized its properties. materials and methods: amyloid fibrils were extracted from cho cells and binding affinity to thioflavin t and congo red was investigated. then the apple-green birefringence of extracted fibrils was detected under polarized li...

The achievement of high cell density and monoclonal antibody concentration depends on understanding cell metabolism and the control of cell culture. A model of cell metabolism and monoclonal antibody production in hybridoma cell culture is presented. Fed-batch culture in serum-free medium was conducted in a bioreactor with an optimized feeding strategy according to the model. In the process, nu...

In order to increase the productivity of human interleukin-2 (IL-2) as a model protein in the recombinant E.coliBL21 (DE3), the effect of magnesium acetate and manganese acetate was studied based on full factorial design experiments magnesium acetate and manganese acetate and their interaction exhibited an increasing effect on IL-2 expression level upto 25.24%, 16.80% and 23.30%, respective...

A continuous butanol production system with high-density Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum N1-4 generated by cell recycling was established to examine the characteristics of butanol fermentation from xylose. In continuous culture without cell recycling, cell washout was avoided by maintaining pH>5.6 at a dilution rate of 0.26 h(-1), indicating pH control was critical to this experiment. Su...

Recombinant Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells producing IgG monoclonal antibody were cultivated in a novel perfusion culture system CellTank, integrating the bioreactor and the cell retention function. In this system, the cells were harbored in a non-woven polyester matrix perfused by the culture medium and immersed in a reservoir. Although adapted to suspension, the CHO cells stayed entrapped ...

in this study, the effects of oxygen supplementation in different stocking densities of rainbow trout (oncorhynchus mykiss) on the specific growth rates (sgr), feed conversion ratios (fcr) and survival rates were investigated in a commercial-scale culture system. high density cultures were maintained in a total of nine (12 m3) flow-through systems supplemented with o2. initial stocking rates fo...

The current method for generating lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) cells for use in human clinical trials is both labor intensive and expensive. Therefore, we altered cell culture conditions to determine whether LAK cells with enhanced lytic activity could be generated. Culture of normal human peripheral blood leukocytes for 7 days generated LAK cells with 4-fold more lytic activity than cultu...