Kyoto University

Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Nissan Chemical Industries Limited

Nissan Chemical Corporation

Yong Chen

Kenichiro Kamei

Takahiro Kishioka

Taito Nishino

Ayako Otani

Makiko Umezaki

Li Liu

The invention provides a microfluidic device comprising at least one cell culture chamber, the at least one cell culture chamber being connected to at least two openings, the device being configured to supply at least one physiologically active substance from at least one of the openings to the at least one cell culture chamber in such a manner as to form a concentration gradient or concentration gradients in the at least one chamber when cells and a hydrogel are introduced into the at least one cell culture chamber to culture the cells in a 3D-gel medium.

Microfluid device and three-dimensional microculture method for cell

The invention provides a microfluidic device comprising at least one cell culture chamber, the at least one cell culture chamber being connected to at least two openings, the device being configured to supply at least one physiologically active substance from at least one of the openings to the at least one cell culture chamber in such a manner as to form a concentration gradient or concentration gradients in the at least one cell culture chamber when cells and a hydrogel are introduced into the at least one cell culture chamber to culture the cells in a 3D-gel medium.

A composition for producing a fiber, containing (A) a polymer compound containing a unit structure represented by the formula (1) and a unit structure represented by the formula (2), (B) a crosslinking agent, (C) an acid compound, and (D) a solvent wherein each symbol in the formulas (1) and (2) is as described in the DESCRIPTION.

Active-ester-group-containing composition for producing fibers, and cell culture scaffold material using fibers produced from active-ester-group-containing composition

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Yong Chen