Acordis Industrial Fibers Gmbh

Christoph Zimmerer

Rudi Wollbeck

Horst-Dieter Lemke

Friedrich Hauck

Membrane module for testing active substances in cells with an interior chamber ( ) which is limited by a lid ( ), a bottom ( ), and a side wall ( ) and a system of first capillary membranes ( ) and a system of second capillary membranes ( ) located therein and possibly additional systems of capillary membranes, whereby the capillary membranes in interior chamber ( ) are arranged in at least one flat layer parallel to bottom ( ) and in interior chamber ( ) in the extracapillary space a cell culture chamber is formed around the capillary membranes, whereby the capillary membranes have a lumen that can be filled with a fluid, are passing with at least one of its ends through the side wall ( ) of interior chamber ( ) and are embedded at this end separated by systems in a casting material ( ) so that interior chamber ( ) is sealed fluid-tight from the outside, and whereby the capillary membranes of each system are in a fluid connection with their lumens with an inlet device ( ) and/or an outlet device ( ), and whereby interior chamber ( ) has a volume between 0.1 and 5 cm .

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Amorbach, Germany

Christoph Zimmerer