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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 1980
Filed:
Apr. 23, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Edgar M Scattergood, Lansdale, PA (US);
Assignee:
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
260-6 ; 260-8 ; 435284 ; 435285 ;
Abstract
A method is provided for pretreatment of microcarrier beads to make them suitable for use in mass culture of vertebrate anchorage dependent cells such as primary and diploid cells. The beads are soaked and heated in fetal calf serum (FCS) at from about 65.degree. to about 95.degree. C. for about 3 minutes to about 1 hour.