Development of a universal integrated micro cell culture system

In this study, we propose an integrated micro cell culture system to easily carry out loading, culturing, observation, and collection of biological cells in a microchannel, and quantitatively evaluated the several factors concerning with the cells in the micro-environment. Especially, we evaluated the effect of the substrate material for the cell culture, and the adhesion and the proliferative properties of the cells collected from the microchannel. It was confirmed that the proposed micro cell culture system is useful for a practical use in cell biology.