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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2005
Applicants:
Kohji Nakazawa, Kitakyushu, JP;
Junji Fukuda, Kitakyushu, JP;
Inventors:
Kohji Nakazawa, Kitakyushu, JP;
Junji Fukuda, Kitakyushu, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A microchip is provided that forms cellular tissues having uniform shapes and sizes and that can culture the formed cellular tissues for long periods of time. The cellular tissue microchip comprises a plurality of cell-retaining cavities () for retaining cells, wherein a bottom surface () of the cell-retaining cavities has one adhesive region () that exhibits cellular adhesiveness and a non-adhesive region () that surrounds the adhesive region () and that exhibits cellular non-adhesiveness.