1. Modification and qualification of a stirred single-use bioreactor for the improved expansion of human mesenchymal stem cells at benchtop scale
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Jossen, Valentin, Kaiser, Stephan C, Schirmaier, Carmen, Herrmann, Jacqueline, Tappe, Alexander, Eibl, Dieter, Siehoff, Ann, den Bos, Christian van, and Eibl, Regine
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Background:To improve cultivation conditions for human bone-marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells, we redesigned the commercially available UniVessel®SU bioreactor using results obtained from computational fluid dynamics. The goal was to produce ≥1 × 109cells and to achieve expansion factors ≥30. Screening studies suggested that microcarrier solid fractions of at least 0.3 are required to reach the appropriate cell densities. Results:The fluid flow pattern found in the most promising modification (#2) was altered by increasing the impeller blade angle and lowering the off-bottom clearance. As a result, the maximum required specific power input was reduced by a factor of 2.2–4.6, depending on the microcarrier concentration, and peak cell densities were 3.4-times higher than in the standard version. Conclusion:The peak cell number of nearly 1.1 × 109cells (expansion factor 35), which was achieved in our low-serum cultivations, indicates an improvement in the redesigned UniVessel®SU configuration for bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell expansions.
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- 2014
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