title: Encapsulation of mammalian cell with chitosan-CMC capsule.
abstract: Viable hybridoma cells were encapsulated. The capsules were formed in one step by placing a drop of cell suspension mixed with negatively charged carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) into a positively charged chitosan solution through the interpolymeric ionic interaction between two oppositely charged polymers. These capsules were found to have a mean diameter of about 1. 5 mm and wall thickness of 3 microm. The cells grew in the capsules using supplemented DMEM/F12 (four kinds of growth factor). The maximum cell density in encapsulating cell culture reached 1 x 10(7) cells/ml, 10 times higher than that obtained in the free cell culture. The maximum monoclonal antibody concentration in the free cell culture was 15 microg/mL, but that in the capsule was 45 microg/mL The antibody produced by the cell was concentrated about four times higher inside than outside of the capsules.
authors.affiliation: Technical Research Institute, Snow Brand Milk Products Co, Ltd, 1-2, Minamidai 1-Chome, Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoshioka
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hirano
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shioya
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kako