Description
PET (polyethylene) Permeable Cell Culture Inserts with 3 um pore size for 6 well plates.
Permeable cell culture inserts mimic in vivo cell growth conditions, in vitro. They are helpful experimentally when examining drug transfer, cell transport, cell migration and cell:cell interactions, for example.
Per ThermoFisher Scientific:
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PC permeable cell culture inserts provide for excellent cell attachment and growth.
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PET permeable cell culture inserts are most ideal for culturing cells to be fluorescently imaged (i.e. provide for better image quality).
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Both PC and PET permeable cell culture inserts are good for barrier assays (which measure cell transport).
Inserts are suspended (hanging); they are centered and not touching the sides of the well; they sit just above the bottom of the well, allowing for growth of a cell monolayer.
Insert is made of polyethylene (PET), plate is made of polystyrene.
Inserts come pre-inserted into tissue culture treated 6 well plates, which are individually-packed. Untreated 6 Well Cell Culture Plates may also be purchased separately for your experimentation involving permeable cell culture inserts.
Sterile, DNase and RNase free and non-pyorgenic.
6 inserts/plate, 2 plates/case, (12) 3 um PET permeable cell culture inserts/case.
Celltreat catalog # 230609.
→Use 3 um pore size cell culture inserts for experiments related to the following studies. This chart comes from, and these recommendations are suggested by, ThermoFisher Scientific and can be found here→ThermoFisher Scientifc:
Cell culture insert applications | 0.4µm | 3µm | 8µm |
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Transport studies
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X | X | |
Transport studies co-cultivation studies
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X | X | |
Tissue engineering
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X | X | |
Chemotaxis studies
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X | X | |
Invasion studies
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X | X |