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DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL BIOTECHNOLOGY


     History of animal cell
culture, cell culture media and
      reagents, culture of
 mammalian cells, tissues and
             organs



                                  Submitted by:
                                  Dr. Vijayata
History of animal cell culture
EVENT
1907   Harrison        Frog embryo nerve fiber outgrowth in vitro.
                       (cultivated frog nerve cells in a lymph clot held by
                       the 'hanging drop' method and
                       observed the growth of nerve fibers in vitro )

1912   Alexis carrel   Explants of chick connective tissue; heart muscle
                       contractile for 2–3 months



1916   Rous & Jones    Trypsinization and subculture of explants


1920s Carrel &         Subculture of fibroblastic cell lines
/30s  Ebeling, 1923

1925– Strangeways &    Differentiation in vitro in organ culture
1926 Fell

1940s Keilova, 1948;   Introduction of the use of antibiotics in tissue
      Cruikshank &     culture (penicillin and streptomycin )
      Lowbury, 1952
1943 Earle           Establishment of the L-cell mouse fibroblast cell line;
                     first continuous cell line
1949 Enders          Growth of virus in cell culture



1952 Dulbecco        Use of trypsin for generation of replicate
                     subcultures
                     Virus plaque assay


1952 Gey             Establishment the first human cell line, HeLa, from
                     a cervical carcinoma,

1955 Eagle           Development of defined media

1959 Puck & Marcus   Cloning of HeLa on a homologous feeder layer

1961 Sorieul &       Cell fusion–somatic cell hybridization
     Ephrussi
1962   Macpherson &     Establishment and transformation of BHK21
       Stoker
1964   Klein smith &    Pluripotency of embryonal stem cells
       Pierce
1965   Ham              Serum-free cloning of Chinese hamster cells

1967   Hoober &         Epidermal growth factor
       Cohen
1968   Stoker et al.    Anchorage-independent cell proliferation

1969   Metcalf          Colony formation in hematopoietic cells

1975   Kohler &         Hybridomas—monoclonal antibodies
       Milstein

1976   Illmensee &      Totipotency of embryonal stem cells
       Mintz
1976   Hayashi & Sato   Growth factor-supplemented serum-free
                        media
1977   Nelson-Rees &    Confirmation of HeLa cell cross-
       Flandermeyer     contamination of many cell lines
1978   Ham & McKeehan        MCDB-selective, serum-free media

1980– Peehl & Ham, 1980;     Development of many specialized cell lines
1987 Hammond et al.,
      1984; Knedler & Ham,
      1987
1982   Darnell,              Regulation of gene expression
1983   Evans                 Regulation of cell cycle

1984   Collen                Production of recombinant tissue-type
                             plasminogen activator in mammalian cells
1989   Weinberg              Oncogenes , malignancy, and transformation

1990s Kruse et al., 1991;    Development of laminar-flow cabinets
      Collins & Kennedy,
      1999
1991   Griffiths             Salk polio vaccine grown in monkey kidney cells

1998   Thomson et al.,       Culture of human embryonic stem cells

2000+ Dennis et al., 2001    Human Genome Project: genomics, proteomics,
                             genetic deficiencies and expression errors
Cell culture media and reagents
• The culture medium is the Combination of ingredients will
  support the cell growth by providing all the essential nutrients ,
  growth factors, and hormones for cell growth, as well as
  regulating the pH and the osmolarity of culture.

• The three basic classes of media are: (differ in their requirement
  for supplementation with serum. )

The choice of culture
                                              Basal
media is dependent on the                     media
requirements of cells
being cultured.
                                     Reduced-         Serum-
                                      serum            free
                                      media           media
Basal (Basic) Media :

• Basal Medium is a defined medium that contains essential and
  nonessential amino acids, vitamins, inorganic salts, organic
  compounds, and trace elements, but does not contain the Growth
  Supplements necessary for cell growth.
• Balanced salt solutions (BSS) e.g. phosphate-buffered saline
  (PBS)
• DMEM and RPMI 1640 (with or without glutamine)

Reduced-Serum Media :
• Reduced-serum media are basal media formulations enriched
with nutrients and animal-derived factors, which reduce the amount
of serum that is needed.
Serum-Free Media :


• Serum-free media (SFM) circumvents issues with using
  animal sera by replacing the serum with appropriate
  nutritional and hormonal formulations.
• Serum-free media formulations exist for many primary
  cultures and cell lines, including Chinese Hamster Ovary
  (CHO), hybridoma cell lines, VERO, MDCK, MDBK cell
  lines etc.
•    One of the major advantages of using serum-free media is the
    ability to make the medium selective for specific cell types by
    choosing the appropriate combination of growth factors.
COMMON CELL CULTURE MEDIA

•   Minimum Essential Medium (MEM)
•   GMEMm (Glasgow Minimum Essential Medium)
•   EMEM (Eagle’s MEM)
•   DMEM (Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Medium)
•   Medium 199
•   BME (Basal Medium Eagle)
•   Ham's F-10 Medium
•   Ham's F-12 Medium
•   RPMI 1640 medium
•   Leibovitz L-15 medium
•   CMRL 1066
•   Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium (DMEM-001)
•   MCDB 131
•   McCoy's 5A
REAGENTS

The components or reagents of suitable culture media include:




                                        Cell
      Balanced       Buffers and
                                    dissociation   Supplements
     salt solution    chemicals
                                      reagents
Balanced salt solution :
• Balanced salt solutions can provide an environment that
  maintains the structural and physiological integrity, pH and
  osmotic pressure of cells in vitro.
• Maintain osmolarity
• Regulate membrane potential (Na+, K+, Ca2+)
• Ions for cell attachment and enzyme cofactors


      DPBS (Dulbecco's Phosphate-Buffered Salines)
      HBSS (Hanks' Balanced Salt Solutions)
      PBS (Phosphate-Buffered Salines)
      EBSS (Earle's Balanced Salt Solutions)
Buffers and chemicals :

• HEPES (4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazine ethane sulfonic acid )
• Sodium Bicarbonate solution

Cell dissociation reagents :

Are the cell detachment solutions of proteolytic and collagenolytic enzymes.
• Papain, powder
• Trypsin 0.25% (1X), liquid
• Trypsin 2.5% (10X), liquid
• Dispase (Neutral Protease), powder
• Elastase, powder
• Hyaluronidase
• Pepsin A, powder
• Collagenase type 1,2,3,4
• Trypsin Inhibitors
Supplements :

• L-glutamine                          • 2-Mercaptoethanol
• Glutamax™                            • Lipid Supplement
• Non-essential amino acids (NEAA)     • CHO Supplement
• Growth Factors and Hormones          • Antibiotics and Antimycotics
  (e.g.: insulin)                        (Penicillin, streptomycin,
                                         gentamicin, amphotericin B)
• Vitamines (MEM Vitamin Solution)

Serum :
• Foetal Calf/Bovine Serum (FCS & FBS) provides the best growing
   conditions.
• Source of growth and adhesion factors, hormones, lipids and minerals
   for the culture of cells.
• Regulates cell membrane permeability and serves as a carrier for
   lipids, enzymes, micronutrients, and trace elements into the cell.
Culture of mammalian cells,
tissues and organs
Tissue culture
• Tissue culture is used as a
  generic term to include the
  in vitro cultivation of                  Organ
                                          culture
  organs, tissues and cells.
• The ability to survive and
  grow tissues outside the      Explant
                                culture
  body in an artificial
  environment.                                Cell culture
• Tissue culture can be
  subdivided into three
  major categories
Organ culture
• The entire embryos or organs are excised from the body and
  culture.
• Organ culture refers to a three-dimensional culture of tissue retaining
   some or all of the histological features of the tissue in vivo.
   (Histological structure maintained)
• The tissue is cultured at the liquid–gas interface (on a grid or gel),
   which favors the retention of a spherical or three-dimensional shape.
Advantages
    • Normal physiological functions are maintained.
    • Cells remain fully differentiated.
Disadvantages :
• The particular cells of interest may be very small in number in a piece
   of tissue so the response produced may be difficult to detect and
   quantify.
Organ culture techniques
1. Plasma clot method or Watch glass method
2. Organ Culture on Agar (Agar gel method)
i. Raft method
ii. Grid method
3. Organ Culture in Liquid Media
1. Plasma clot method or
      Watch glass method
  Dame Honor Fell and Robinson introduced plasma
  clot substrate originally to study development of
  avian limb bone rudiment.

A plasma clot is prepared by mixing 5 drops of embryo extract
with 15 drops of plasma in a watch glass placed on a cotton
wool pad.


      The cotton wool pad is put in a Petri dish. Time to time cotton
      is moistened so that excessive evaporation should not occur.




             A small piece of organ tissue is placed on the top of plasma
             clot present in the watch glass.
2.Organ Culture on Agar
• Media solidified with agar is used
• Media consist of : 7 parts 1% agar in Basal Salt Solution + 3 Parts
  chick embryo extracts + 3 parts horse serum(7:3:3)
• Embryonic cultures grow well
• No need of mechanical support as media with agar serves good support

Raft Method :
•    Tissue is placed onto a raft of lens paper or rayon acetate, which is
     floated on serum in a watch glass.
•    Rayon acetate rafts are made to float on the serum by treating their 4
     corners with silicone.
•    In a combination of raft and clot techniques, the explants are first
     placed on a suitable raft, which is then kept on a plasma clot.
•    This modification makes media changes easy, and prevents the sinking
     of tissue into liquefied plasma.
Grid Method
•   Initially devised by Trowell in 1954, the grid method utilizes 25 mm
    x 25 mm pieces of a suitable wire mesh or perforated stainless steel
    sheet.
•   Skeletal tissues are generally placed directly on the grid but softer
    tissues like glands or skin are first placed on rafts, which are then
    kept on the grids.
•   The grids themselves are placed in a culture chamber filled with fluid
    medium up to the grid.
•   The chamber is supplied with a mixture of O2 and CO2 to meet the
    high O2 requirements of adult mammalian organs.
Organ Culture in Liquid Media

• The liquid media consist of all the ingredients except agar.
• When liquid media are used for organ culture, generally perforated
   metal gauze or cellulose acetate or a raft of lens paper is used.
• These possibility provides support.
Primary explant culture

• It is developed by Harrison and carrel.

• In primary explant culture, a fragment of tissue is placed at a glass
   (or plastic)–liquid interface, are simply allowed to attach to an
   appropriate substrate, ( tissue attached to surface by plasma clot or
   warming) where, after attachment, cell migration (outgrowth of
   cell) is promoted in the plane of the solid substrate.

• Incubated with growth medium
EXPLANTATION TECHNIQUES

1. Slide or cover slip cultures

a) Single cover slip with plasma clot
b) Double cover slip with plasma clot
c) Single cover slip with liquid medium

2.   Carrel flask cultures

3.   Roller test tube cultures
1. Slide or cover slip cultures

• Slides or cover slips are prepared by placing a fragment of
  tissue (explantation) onto a cover slip, which is subsequently
  inverted over the cavity of a depression slide.
• This is the oldest method of tissue culture and is still quite
  widely used.
a) Single cover slip with plasma clot :
• Prepare medium in two parts, one containing 50% plasma in
  BSS (balanced salt solution) and the other containing 50%
  embryo extract in serum.
• Under aseptic conditions, using a capillary pipette, place 1
  drop of plasma containing solution In the centre of cover slip.
Single cover slip with plasma clot
• Transfer a fragment of tissue (explant) to this drop without crushing
   the tissue.

• Add the embryo extract containing solution and mix thoroughly
   before clotting starts and then locate the explant.

• Place two small spots of petroleum jelly near the concavity of a
   depression slide and invert the slide over the cover slip, apply gentle
   pressure so that jelly sticks to cover slip.

• Allow culture medium to clot.

• Turn over the slide and seal the margins of cover slip with paraffin.

• Label and incubate at 37 c.
b) Double cover slip with plasma clot :

• Resembles single cover slip method.
• A small drop of BSS is placed on a large coverslip (40mm).
• A square or round cover slip (22mm) is placed over BSS in the centre of
  large cover slip.
• Place the explant over the round cover slip.
• The entire preparation is attached to a large depression slide by petrolleum
  jelly and wax in such a way that the small cover slip is not in contact with
  the slide at any point.




           Top View                                     Side View
         Maximov's Double Coverslip Method for Preparation of Slide Cultures
c) Single cover slip with liquid medium :

• Suitably prepared explants are placed in culture medium in a
  watch glass.
• The explants are drawn into the tip of a capillary pipette, and
  one explant is deposited in the centre of coverslip.
• The liquid medium can be spread out in a very thin circular
  film with the explant protruding above the surface.
• A depression slide with petroleum jelly is applied immediately
  and preparation turned over with a quick flip to prevent the
  fluid from running out of the crevice between the slide and the
  coverslip.
• The coverslip is sealed and the slide incubated at 37 C,upright
  or inverted; the tissue grows on the coverglass.
2.Flask cultures
• The main use of flask cultures is in the establishment of a strain from
    fresh explants of tissue.
• A good Carrel Flask has excellent optical properties for microscopic
    examination.
Advantages:
(i) tissue can be maintained in the same flask for months or even years;
(ii) large number of cultures can be easily prepared and large amount of
    tissue can be maintained for a considerable period of time.
There are two types of flask techniques:
(i) Thick clot culture, which allow rapid growth suitable for short-term
    cultures and
(ii) Thin clot culture, which can be maintained for a considerable period
    of time.
(i)   Place a drop of plasma on the floor of carrel flask and spread this plasma out
      in a circle with the help of spatula,
(ii) transfer the desired number of explants to the plasma and allow clotting to
      occur;
(iii) after the plasma clots and explants fixed in position, add extra medium; for
thick clots 1.2ml of dilute plasma and for thin clots 1.2ml of dilute serum ; the
     whole thing is left for clotting;
(v) The flasks are gassed with gas phase (5% CO2 in air).
3.Roller test tube cultures
• The feeding ,patching and transfer of culture is done as in
  other primary explantation techniques.
• This technique is used for preparing a large number of
  cultures, which can be placed in a stationary racks or roller
  drums.
• Cultures on plasma clots in test tube are prepared just like
  those in flasks, but tissues may be grown on the wall of test
  tube without a plasma clot.
Cell culture
• Cell culture refers to cultures derived from dissociated cells
  taken from the original tissue .
• Cell culture implies that the tissue, or outgrowth from the
  primary explant, is dispersed (mechanically or enzymatically)
  into a cell suspension, which may then be cultured as a
  monolayer on a solid substrate or as a suspension in the culture
  medium
• These cultures have lost their histotypic architecture.
Advantages
   – Development of a cell line over several generations
Disadvantages
   – Cells may lose some differentiated characteristics.
Reference:
• Culture of Animal Cells - John Wiley & Sons
• Basic Principles of Cell Culture - R. Ian Freshney
• Principles of Animal cell culture - Basant Kumar Sinha, Rinesh
  Kumar
• Handbook for cell culture basics (Gibco)
• Textbook Of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology - Chandrakant
  Kokate, Pramod H.J, SS Jalalpure
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