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Introduction to Tissue culture

Sompol Tapechum M.D., Ph.D.

Department of PhysiologyFaculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital

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Experimental Methods 2006 2

Objectives

After the session, students should be able to

explain

the meaning of tissue culture and various types of tissueculture

the application of tissue culture

the advantages and disadvantages of each type of tissue

culture the significant of culture environment on tissue culture

the basic procedure of tissue culture

the safety consideration for tissue culture work

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What is tissue culture?

In vitro culture (maintain and/or proliferate)

of cells, tissues or organs

Types of tissue culture

Organ culture

Tissue culture

Cell culture

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Organ culture

The entire embryos or organs are excised from thebody and culture

Advantages Normal physiological functions are maintained.

Cells remain fully differentiated.

Disadvantages

Scale-up is not recommended. Growth is slow.

Fresh explantation is required for every experiment.

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Tissue Culture

Fragments of excised tissue are grown in culture

media

Advantages Some normal functions may be maintained.

Better than organ culture for scale-up but not ideal.

Disadvantages

Original organization of tissue is lost.

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Cell Culture

Tissue from an explant is dispersed, mostly

enzymatically, into a cell suspension which may

then be cultured as a monolayer or suspensionculture.

Advantages

Development of a cell line over several generations

Scale-up is possible

Disadvantages

Cells may lose some differentiated characteristics.

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Why do we need Cell culture?

Research

To overcome problems in studying cellular behavior

such as: confounding effects of the surrounding tissues

variations that might arise in animals under experimental stress

Reduce animal use

Commercial or large-scale production Production of cell material: vaccine, antibody, hormone

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Cell culture application

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Advantages of Cell culture

Advantages:

Absolute control of physical environment

Homogeneity of sample Less compound needed than in animal models

Disadvantages:

Hard to maintain Only grow small amount of tissue at high cost

Dedifferentiation

Instability, aneuploidy

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Types of Cell culture

1. Primary Cultures

Derived directly from excised tissue and culturedeither as

Outgrowth of excised tissue in culture

Dissociation into single cells (by enzymatic digestion ormechanical dispersion)

Advantages:

usually retain many of the differentiated characteristics of thecell in vivo

Disadvantages:

initially heterogeneous but later become dominated byfibroblasts.

the preparation of primary cultures is labor intensive can be maintained in vitro only for a limited period of time.

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Types of Cell culture

2. Continuous Cultures

derived from subculture (or passage, or transfer) of

primary culture Subculture = the process of dispersion and re-culture the cells

after they have increased to occupy all of the available

substrate in the culture

usually comprised of a single cell type

can be serially propagated in culture for several

passages

There are two types of continuous cultures

Cell lines

Continuous cell lines

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Types of continuous culture

1) Cell lines

finite life, senesce after approximately thirty

cycles of division usually diploid and maintain some degree of

differentiation.

it is essential to establish a system of Master and

Working banks in order to maintain such lines forlong periods

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Types of continuous culture

2) Continuous cell lines

can be propagated indefinitely

generally have this ability because they have beentransformed

tumor cells.

viral oncogenes

chemical treatments.

the disadvantage of having retained very little of

the original in vivo characteristics

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Transformation VS Transfection

Transformation Spontaneous or induced permanent phenotypic

changes resulting from change in DNA and gene

expression growth rate

mode of growth (loss of contact inhibition)

specialized product formation

longevity

loss of need for adhesion

Transfection Introduction of DNA into a cell (like viral DNA)

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Initiation of culture

Tissue

Primary cell culture

Cell line Continuous cell line

dispersion

Subculture

Finite numbers Indefinite numbers

Stored Stored

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Cell Culture Morphology

Morphologically cell cultures take one of two forms: growing in suspension (as single cells or small free-floating clumps)

cell lines derived from blood (leukaemia, lymphoma)

growing as a monolayer that is attached to the tissue culture flask.

cells derived from solid tissue (lungs, kidney), endothelial, epithelial,neuronal, fibroblasts

Hela-Epithelial

MRC5-Fibroblast SHSY5Y-Neuronal

BAE1-Endothelial

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Special types of Cell culture

Cells in the culture can be grown to adopt

in vivo characteristic

Histotypic culture

Single cell lineage

Organotypic culture

Multiple cell lineages

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Biology of Culture cells

Cell growth and differentiation in the culture

depends on:

The nature of cells The culture environment

the nature of the substrate on which cell grow

the physicochemical and physiological constitution of

culture medium the constitution of gas phase

the incubation temperature

the cell-cell and cell-matrix interaction

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Cell cycle

M

Mitosis

G1

Gap1

G2Gap2

G0

S

Synthesis

G1 check point

cell big

environment suitable

G2 check point

DNA replicated

cell big environment suitable

Metaphase check point

chromosome align on spindle

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Cell cycle

Interphase: generally lasts at least 12 to 24 hours in mammalian tissue

the cell is constantly synthesizing RNA, producing protein andgrowing in size

Gap 0 (G0): cell will leave the cycle and quit dividing temporary or morepermanent

Gap 1 (G1): Cells increase in size, RNA and protein synthesis, there is aG1 Checkpoint

S Phase: The DNA replication occurs

Gap 2 (G2): The cell will continue to grow and produce new proteins.There is a G2 Checkpoint

Mitosis or M Phase: Cell growth and protein production stop the cell cycle divides into two similar daughter cell

Mitosis last perhaps only one to two hours

there is a Checkpoint in the middle of mitosis (MetaphaseCheckpoint) that ensures the cell is ready to complete cell division.

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Factors affecting cell proliferation

Promotion of cell proliferation

low cell density (leaves the cell with free

edge) signals from environment: Growth factors

Inhibition of cell proliferation

Density limitation: high cell density Contact inhibition: cell contact

signals from environment: p53 gene product

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Factors affecting cell diferentiation

Cell differentiation is important for normal cell

functions

Factors promoting cell differentiations high cell density

cell-cell and cell-matrix interaction

inducers: hydrocortisone, retinoid, matrix

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Factors affecting cell adhesion

Cell adhesion is important for cellproliferation and differentiation (signalingthrough cytoskeleton)

Cell adhesion molecule

Cell-cell interaction: CAMs, cadherins

Cell-matrix interaction: integrin,

transmembrame proteoglycan

Tight junctional complex in epithelial cellsfor cell-cell interaction

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Factors affecting cell adhesion

Enzymatic disaggregation digests the adhesion

molecule and extracellular matrix

Most cells from solid tissues grow as adherentmonolayer

Matrix-coated surface promotes cell

proliferation and differentiation

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Factors affect cell culture success

Appropriate cells

Suitable environment

Solid phase substrate or phase on which the cell grow eg. glass, plastic,collagen, agar

Liquid phase

physicochemical and physiological constitution of the medium

Gaseous phase Temperature

Aseptic environment

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Solid phase

Anchorage dependent cells require anontoxic, biologically inert to attach andallow movement for growth

The most convenient vessels are

polystyrene plastic

other growth surface such as glass, filterwells

The surface can be treated by

coated with matrix substrate eg. Collagen,

poly-l-lysine, matrigel Feeder layers: monolayer of supporting

cells, perhaps promote cell growth anddifferentiation by cell contact andsubstance secreted

Neurons on glial cell feeder layers

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Liquid phase

Components of culture media

Inorganic Salts

retain the osmotic balance of the cells

regulate membrane potential by provision of

sodium, potassium and calcium ions.

are required in the cell matrix for cell attachment

and as enzyme cofactors.

Carbohydrates

Most media contain 4-20 mM glucose

main source of energy from glycolysis

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Liquid phase

Proteins and Peptides

are used to replace those normally present in serum

eg. transferrin, fibronectin

Amino acids

important for cell proliferation and differentiation

glutamine can enter Krebs cycle

Fatty Acids and Lipids

important in serum free media e.g. cholesterol andsteroids essential for specialized cells.

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Liquid phase

Vitamins

vitamins B are necessary for cell growth andproliferation

precursors for numerous co-factors The vitamins commonly used in media include

thiamine, riboflavin and biotin

Trace Elements

zinc, copper, selenium and tricarboxylic acidintermediates.

Selenium is a detoxifier and helps remove oxygenfree radicals.

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Liquid phase

Buffering Systems

most cells need optimal pH conditions in the range 7.2- 7.4

close control of pH is essential for optimum cultureconditions

bicarbonate/CO2 buffering systems

Chemical buffering: HEPES

Most commercial culture media include phenol red as a

pH indicator yellow (acid) or purple (alkali)

Osmolarity

similar to plasma osmolarity 290 mOsm

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Liquid phase

Serum

Undefined factors: complex mix of albumins,growth factors and growth inhibitors

increase the buffering capacity of cultures able to bind and neutralize toxins

can be important for slow growing cells or wherethe seeding density is low

Subject to batch to batch variation

Heat inactivation of serum (incubation at 56C for30 minutes) can help to reduce the risk ofcontamination

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Gaseous phase

Carbondioxide

important for buffering system

5-10% CO2

Endogenous production: pyruvate

Oxygen

most cells in culture require low oxygen tension

anaerobic glycolysis

high oxygen can produce toxic free radical

H3C C C O

O O

C S

O

H3C CoA

HSCo A

NAD+NADH

+ CO2

Pyruvate Dehydrogenase

pyruvate acetyl-CoA

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Temperature

The optimum temperature depends on

the body temperature of animals from which the

cells were obtained anatomical variation of temperature (skin

temperature may be lower than the rest of the

body)

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Aseptic techniques

Microorganism remains a major problem in cell culture

prevention of contamination

Antibiotics

improvement of laboratory condition

Aseptic techniques

Clean and tidy work surface

Personal hygiene

hand washing caps, gowns, face mask

Reagents and media

Culture vessels

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Cryopreservation of Cell Lines

The aim of cryopreservation is to enable stocks ofcells to be stored to prevent the need to have all celllines in culture at all times

Reduced risk of microbial contamination Reduced risk of cross contamination with other celllines

Reduced risk of genetic drift and morphologicalchanges

Work conducted using cells at a consistent passagenumber

Reduced costs (consumables and staff time)

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Cryopreservation of Cell Lines

Method Advantages Disadvantages

Electric (-135C) Freezer Ease of maintenance

Steady temperature

Low running costs

Requires liquid nitrogen

back-up

Mechanically complex

Storage temperatures highrelative to liquid nitrogen

Liquid Phase Nitrogen Steady ultra-low (-196C)

temperature

Simplicity and mechanical

reliability

Requires regular supply of

liquid nitrogen

High running costs

Risk of cross-contamination

via the liquid nitrogen

- 196C

Vapor Phase Nitrogen

No risk of cross-

contamination from liquid

nitrogen

Low temperatures achieved

Simplicity and reliability

Requires regular supply of

liquid nitrogen

High running costs

Temperature fluctuations

between - 135C and - 190C

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Risk Assessment

Risks depend on:

Source of material

the nature of operation being carried out

Assesment: Pathogenicity

Route of transmission

Agent stability

Infectious dose

Concentration

Availability of data from animal studies

Availability of an effective prophylaxis

Medical surveillance

Experience and skill level of at-risk personnel

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Risk groups for animal cell culture

The level of risk depends on the cell line to be used and isbased on whether the cell line is likely to cause harm tohumans.

Low risk Non human/non primate continuous cell lines and some well

characterized human diploid lines of finite lifespan

Medium risk Poorly characterized mammalian cell lines.

High risk Cell lines derived from human/primate tissue or blood.

Cell lines with endogenous pathogens (the precise categorization isdependent upon the pathogen)

Cell lines used following experimental infection where thecategorization is dependent upon the infecting agent

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Safety aspects of cell culture

SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS

Assume all cultures are hazardous since they may harbor latent virusesor other organisms

The following safety precautions should also be observed:

pipetting: use pipette aids to prevent ingestion keep aerosols down to a minimum

no eating, drinking, or smoking

wash hands after handling cultures and before leaving the lab

decontaminate work surfaces with disinfectant (before and after)

autoclave all waste

use biological safety cabinet (laminar flow hood) use aseptic technique

dispose of all liquid waste after each experiment and treat with bleach

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Risk Group (RG)

Classification is based on the potential effect of

biological agent on healthy human adult

RG1-agents are not associated with disease

RG2-agents are associated with human disease which is

rarely serious and for which preventive or therapeutic

interventions are oftenavailable

RG3-agents are associated with serious or lethal human

disease for which preventive or therapeutic interventions

may beavailable

RG4-agents are likely to cause serious or lethal human

disease for which preventive or therapeutic interventions

are not usuallyavailable

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Biosafety cabinets

The Class I BSC provides

personnel and environmental

protection, but no product

protection. The Class I BSC is hard-ducted to

the building exhaust system,

thimble-connected, or recirculated

back into the room depending on

use.

The Class II (Types A, B1, B2, and

B3)24 biological safety cabinets

provide personnel, environmental

and product protection. Laminar flow

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Recommended Biosafety Levels for Infectious Agents

BSL Agents Practices Safety Equipment(Primary Barriers) Facilities(Secondary Barriers)1 Not known to consistently cause

disease in healthy adults

Standard Microbiological

Practices

None required Open bench top sink

required

2 Associated with human disease,

hazard = percutaneous injury,

ingestion, mucous membrane

exposure

BSL-1 practice plus:

Limited access

Biohazard warning signs

"Sharps" precautions

Biosafety manual defining

any needed wastedecontamination or medical

surveillance policies

Primary barriers = Class I or II BSCs or

other physical containment devices used

for all manipulations of agents that cause

splashes or aerosols of infectious

materials; PPEs: laboratory coats; gloves;

face protection as needed

BSL-1 plus:

Autoclave available

3 Indigenous or exotic agents with

potential for aerosol transmission;

disease may have serious or lethal

consequences

BSL-2 practice plus:

Controlled access

Decontamination of all waste

Decontamination of lab

clothing before laundering

Baseline serum

Primary barriers = Class I or II BCSs or

other physical containment devices used

for all open manipulations of agents; PPEs:

protective lab clothing; gloves; respiratory

protection as needed

BSL-2 plus:

Physical separation

from access corridors

Self-closing, double-

door access

Exhausted air not

recirculated

Negative airflow intolaboratory

4 Dangerous/exotic agents which posehigh risk of life-threatening disease,

aerosol-transmitted lab infections; or

related agents with unknown risk of

transmission

BSL-3 practices plus: Clothing change before

entering

Shower on exit

All material decontaminated

on exit from facility

Primary barriers = All proceduresconducted in Class III BSCs or Class I or II

BSCs in combination with full-body, air-

supplied, positive pressure personnel suit

BSL-3 plus: Separate building or

isolated zone

Dedicated supply

and exhaust, vacuum,

and decon systems

Other requirements

outlined in the text

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References

R. Ian Freshney. Culture of Animal cells a

manual of basic technique. 4th edition. Wiley-

Liss, New York. 2000.

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