PHC offers a range of high quality three-dimensional cell culture platforms. These platforms feature an array of well shapes, specifically designed to facilitate spheroid culturing of defined cell types.
The PrimeSurface range of cell culture labware features ultra-low attachment (ULA) plates and dishes designed to facilitate scaffold-free, self-assembly spheroid formation.
These innovative ULA plates have been pre-coated with a unique ultra-hydrophilic polymer, allowing for spontaneous spheroid formation with uniform shape and size. They also offer excellent optical clarity, making them highly suitable for both confocal microscopy and brightfield imaging.
Plates are available with different bottoms, allowing researchers to form tighter spheroids to accommodate specific cell types. The widely used 96 well U bottom plate is available, as well as 96 well plates in V and M bottom formats.
Larger 384 well plates are also available in clear and white options to better accommodate the needs of high throughput screening (HTS) applications.
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Image Credit: PHC Europe B.V.
Image Credit: PHC Europe B.V.
Image Credit: PHC Europe B.V.
Image Credit: PHC Europe B.V.
Image Credit: PHC Europe B.V.
The PrimeSurface series’ ultra-hydrophilic polymer coating is covalently bound to their plastic surface, inhibiting cell attachment and ensuring that there is no cytotoxic and material degradation.
The use of advanced coating technologies and production processes enable uniform spheroid and EB formation, as well as a smooth surface – factors that help ensure the acquisition of consistently clear cell images.
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Three different well bottom shapes of PrimeSurface 96 well plate. Image Credit: PHC Europe B.V.
Retinal tissue formation from Human ES Cells using PrimeSurface 96 well V-bottom plate. Image Credit: PHC Europe B.V.
Cell Culture from Human Caucasian hepatocyte carcinome using PrimeSurface 35ø Dish. Image Credit: PHC Europe B.V.
Three different well bottom shapes of PrimeSurface 96 well plate. Image Credit: PHC Europe B.V.
PrimeSurface 24 well. Image Credit: PHC Europe B.V.
PrimeSurface 96 well plate. Image Credit: PHC Europe B.V.
PrimeSurface 384. Image Credit: PHC Europe B.V.
PrimeSurface dish 35 mm. Image Credit: PHC Europe B.V.
PrimeSurface dish 60 mm. Image Credit: PHC Europe B.V.
PrimeSurface dish 90 mm. Image Credit: PHC Europe B.V.
Table 1. Source: PHC Europe B.V.
| |
Cat.
No. |
Product Name |
Number
of wells |
Color |
Well bottom |
Maximum
volume in
each well |
Package
(radiation
sterilized) |
| Microplates |
MS-90240Z |
PrimeSurface 24 well |
24 |
Clear |
Flat |
3.4
ml |
Individually packed, 10 plates/case |
| MS-9096UZ* |
PrimeSurface 96U |
96 |
Clear |
U |
300
μL |
Individually packed, 20 plates/case |
| MS-9096WZ* |
PrimeSurface 96W |
96 |
White |
U |
300
μL |
Individually packed,
20 plates/case |
| MS-9096MZ* |
PrimeSurface 96M |
96 |
Clear |
Spindle |
200
μL |
Individually packed,
20 plates/case |
| MS-9096VZ* |
PrimeSurface 96V |
96 |
Clear |
V |
300
μL |
Individually packed, 20 plates/case |
| MS-9384UZ* |
PrimeSurface 384U |
384 |
Clear |
U |
106
μL |
Individually packed, 20 plates/case |
| MS-9384WZ* |
PrimeSurface 384W |
384 |
White |
U |
106
μL |
Individually packed, 20 plates/case |
| Dishes |
MS-90350Z |
PrimeSurface dish 35 mm |
- |
Clear |
Flat (9 cm2) |
- |
5 dishes/package, 50 dishes/case |
| MS-90600Z |
PrimeSurface dish 60 mm |
- |
Clear |
Flat (21 cm2) |
- |
10 dishes/package, 120 dishes/case |
| MS-90900Z |
PrimeSurface dish 90 mm |
- |
Clear |
Flat (57 cm2) |
- |
10 dishes/package, 50 dishes/case |
* For research/laboratory use only
The PrimeSurface 96 Slit-Well Plate
PHC also provides a novel slit-well, ultra-low attachment 3D plate designed to facilitate rapid and straightforward media exchange without the risk of disrupting the spheroid formation.
Cell culturing applications frequently involve the need for routine media replacement – an essential consideration in ensuring that growing cells receive the required nutrition.
Media aspiration or dispensing can be done in a standard 96 well ultra-low attachment plate, but this must be performed extremely carefully – and often slowly - in order to avoid disturbing the unattached spheroid.
The PrimeSurface 96 Slit-Well Plate helps address this issue, allowing media exchange for 96 well plates to be efficiently performed via one-step dispensing or aspiration for all of the plate’s 96 wells.
Not only does the time-saving design of the Slit-Well structure enable simultaneous delivery of cell culture medium to all 96 wells, but it can also reduce pipetting time by more than 80% while significantly reducing the risk of spheroid damage.
Slit-Well plates are also ideal for users looking to grow larger spheroids in the same well for long-term cultures. These plates can accommodate 1.5 times more media volume versus conventional plates, allowing the provision of the additional nutrients required for larger spheroids.
Key features and benefits
- Non-binding surface for cells enables more natural spheroid formation
- Each well is assured a uniform single spheroid/EB formation
- Exchange media without disrupting spheroid formation
- Spheroid assay formation and analysis can be completed in the same plate
- A range of well bottom shapes are available in a 96 well format - U-bottom, Spindle-bottom and V-bottom
- Reduce media exchange time by simultaneous delivery of cell culture media to all 96 wells
- The plates’ high optical clarity makes them ideal for imaging
- A stable, non-cytotoxic and cell non-adhesion surface is included as standard
- Handling is straightforward, and the plates are compatible with liquid robotic systems
- High throughput assays can be accommodated via 384 well format plates
- The plates are compatible with fluorescence and brightfield imaging systems
- White plates are also compatible with luminescent assays
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Conventional product: medium is independent in each well. Image Credit: PHC Europe B.V.
Slit-Well plate: medium is shared between wells. Image Credit: PHC Europe B.V.
Specifications
Table 2. Source: PHC Europe B.V.
Catalog
Number |
Product
Name |
Well
Type |
Color |
Well
Bottom
Shape |
Maximum
Well
Volume |
Package |
| MS-9096SZ* |
PrimeSurface 96
Slit-Well Plate |
96 |
Clear |
Spindle |
0.3 ml |
Individually packed,
20 plates/case |
* For research / laboratory use only
About PHC Europe B.V.
Founded in 1990 as subsidiary of the PHC Holdings Corporation, it is our mission to become a leading, trusted brand for sustainable healthcare and biomedical product solutions, which support the work of our customers to improve the health and well-being of people around the world.
For more than 25 years now, we respond to the needs of our pharmaceutical, biotechnology, hospital/clinical and industrial customers, offering an unique perspective on scientific research in general. As a result we play a critical role in product development for worldwide applications and have established a reputation as a manufacturer of high-quality and innovative medical and laboratory equipment.
Long lasting relationships have been built with leading pharmaceutical, healthcare and biotechnology companies as well as with major academic and research institutes in Europe. PHC Europe B.V. has set the standard in many aspects. V.I.P. panels, Cool Safe compressors, Active Background Contamination Control and the world’s first -152 °C ULT freezer. Where PHC Europe B.V. took the initiative, the others followed. This made us a very important player in both the ultra-low temperature and the CO2 market.
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