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Measuring cell count and viability in microcarrier cultures

– with NucleoCounter® automated cell counters

Cell counting using a NucleoCounter® instrument is an accurate and reliable method for measuring cell count and viability in microcarrier cultures. Using a NucleoCounter® automated cell counter employs two reagents that rapidly release nuclei from the microcarriers. The released nuclei are loaded into a disposable cassette and inserted into the NucleoCounter® which automatically performs fluorescent staining, image acquisition and image analysis. The whole procedure takes less than five minutes and can be performed without pipettes.

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Microcarriers – a scalable culture system for adherent cells

Total Cell Count and Viability of Microcarrier Cultures

Figure 1. Microcarrier bioreactor. Microcarriers offer a convenient method for growing adherent cells in bioreactors.  

Scaling up cell and virus production can be challenging. Cell culture flasks are not feasible for industrial scale production when a thousandfold increase in production volume is needed. Microcarriers offer a convenient method for growing adherent cells in bioreactors. They serve as a scaffold that adherent cells attach to, allowing them to proliferate while a bioreactor keeps the cell-microcarrier complex freely suspended in the media. Therefore, adherent cell lines are grown like suspension cells, simplifying scaling and allowing existing resources to be leveraged for process optimization and production.

 

Technical Note (.PDF):

NC-200™ – Viability and Cell Count of Microcarrier Cultured Cells
NC-202™ – Cell Count and Viability of Microcarrier Cultured Cells
NC-250™ – Viability and Cell Count of Microcarrier Cultured Cells
NC-3000™ – Viability and Cell Count of Microcarrier Cultured Cells using Via1-Cassette™

The NucleoCounter® method for measuring cell count and viability in microcarrier cultures

 

Figure 2. Via2-Cassette™, NucleoCounter® NC-3000™ and NC-202™ automated cell counters. The NucleoCounter® method for measuring cell count and viability in microcarrier cultures.

The NucleoCounter® detects cells by staining cell nuclei. The cells are made visible using the fluorescent dye DAPI, which is highly specific to DNA, giving accurate detection of cell nuclei even in the presence of cellular debris. Cell sampling, fluorescent staining and counting chamber loading are combined into a single workflow by our unique cassette technology. The cassette is loaded into a NucleoCounter® NC-202™ or NC-3000™, calculating total cell count and viability.

Save time when counting cells growing on microcarriers

Cell count and viability are crucial parameters for optimizing and monitoring large scale bioproduction. Cells grown on microcarriers have traditionally been counted using a multistep process that involves trypsin digestion and trypan blue staining. This method is both time consuming and inaccurate.

A comparison of the traditional trypsin digestion method and the NucleoCounter® workflow shows that the NucleoCounter® removes several centrifugation, pipetting and incubation steps. The entire cell counting process can be completed in less than five minutes.

Traditional trypsin digestion
and manual counting

The NucleoCounter® method

Literature

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