Human Cell Culture
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Culturing Human Pluripotent and Neural Stem Cells in an Enclosed Cell Culture System for Basic and Preclinical Research
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2016
Here is a protocol to grow pluripotent stem cells (PSC) and neural stem cells (NSC) in an enclosed cell culture system that permits maximum sterility and reproducibility, replacing the traditional biosafety cabinet and incubator. This equipment meets clinical good manufacturing practice (cGMP) and clinical good lab practice (cGLP) guidelines.
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Rotating Cell Culture Systems for Human Cell Culture: Human Trophoblast Cells as a Model
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2012
Traditional, two dimensional cell culture techniques often result in altered characteristics with respect to differentiation markers, cytokines and growth factors. Three-dimensional cell culture in the rotating cell culture system (RCCS) reestablishes expression of many of these factors as shown here with an extravillous trophoblast cell line.
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Culture and Maintenance of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
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2009
This protocol demonstrates how to maintain healthy, undifferentiated human embryonic stem (ES) cells.
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Human ES cells: Starting Culture from Frozen Cells
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2006
Here we demonstrate how our lab begins a HuES human embryonic stem cell line culture from a frozen stock.
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Isolation and Culture of Human Fungiform Taste Papillae Cells
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2012
We aimed to develop a reproducible protocol for isolating and maintaining long-term cultures of human fungiform taste papillae cells. Cells from human fungiform papillae obtained by biopsy were successfully maintained in culture for more than eight passages (12 months) without loss of viability.
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These conditions help determine whether cultured human cells survive, divide, and retain specialized functions. Temperature and gas composition contribute to the physical environment, while pH affects the chemical conditions surrounding the cells. Incubation time determines how long cells experience those conditions. Regulating these variables allows researchers to relate observed cellular changes to defined laboratory conditions.
Sterile vessels provide a controlled setting for placing and maintaining the cells, while nutrient-rich culture medium supplies the surrounding conditions needed for cellular survival and growth. Together, they support continued observation under laboratory-defined conditions. Their use is essential when researchers need to examine cell structure, signaling, gene expression, or specialized functions without changing the system unpredictably.
Environmental control helps separate cellular responses from uncontrolled changes in experimental conditions. By regulating factors such as pH, gas composition, temperature, and incubation time, researchers can examine how cells behave under specified settings. This makes human cell culture useful for investigating signaling, gene expression, disease mechanisms, and responses to drugs or other treatments.
Human cell culture provides a more defined laboratory system for examining cellular processes, whereas whole-organism studies provide broader biological context. The culture approach can therefore support focused investigation of cell structure, signaling, gene expression, disease mechanisms, and treatment responses. Used alongside organism-level research, it helps connect cellular observations with wider biological questions without replacing the whole-organism perspective.
A basic workflow begins by placing human cells in sterile culture vessels containing nutrient-rich medium. Researchers then regulate temperature, gas composition, pH, and incubation time to create suitable conditions for survival, division, or specialized function. After maintaining the culture under these settings, they can examine cellular behavior or measure responses to drugs and other treatments.
Researchers can use cultured cells to study cell structure, signaling pathways, gene expression, disease mechanisms, and responses to drugs or other treatments. Because the environment is controlled, the system supports focused comparisons between defined conditions. Human cell culture also contributes to tissue engineering and regenerative research, extending its value beyond basic cellular biology.