title: Diamond-like carbon as biological compatible material for cell culture and medical application.
abstract: Ion beam assisted diamond-like carbon (DLC) films have been used for growing the human hematopoietic myeloblastic ML-1 cells and human embryo kidney 293 cells in the control environment. DLC films were directly deposited onto the P-35 plastic dishes by impacting the high kinetic energy (1000 eV) of methane ions at room temperature. The present results showed that both ML-1 and HEK 293 cells continuously grow with and without DLC films. It has demonstrated that human cells proliferated on DLC film with very high viability and DLC material had no toxicity to cultured human ML-1 and HEK 293 cells. We conclude that DLC film is a biological compatible material for potential cell culture matrix and bio-medical applications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: M W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D001672:Biocompatible Materials / Q000737:chemistry*; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D002244:Carbon / Q000737:chemistry*; D002455:Cell Division; D002460:Cell Line; D002470:Cell Survival; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003470:Culture Media; D018130:Diamond / Q000737:chemistry*; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000166:cytology; D013499:Surface Properties; D014343:Trypan Blue
chemical_list: D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D003470:Culture Media; D002244:Carbon; D018130:Diamond; D014343:Trypan Blue