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1-WELL STATIC CONFINER – CSOW 110

User friendly and convenient

It is easy to assemble and is portable
Enables high resolution imaging

It fits with glass bottom petri dishes (35 mm) and the observation area is made of optically transparent materials
Adaptable with your microscope

It was designed to fit in your microscope

The static confiner is a portable device that allows confining cells within two surfaces with nanometer precision. The space between the two surfaces is controlled by using micro PDMS pillars. The micro pillars are fabricated in a glass slide, which is attached to a PDMS piston. The CSOW 110 is the device that controls the piston mechanically and it is compatible with glass bottom petri dishes (35 mm). The cells can be retrieved after confined, enabling further biochemical analysis. The user decides when and where to confine the cells as it is not necessary to plug it to any other device.

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Features

Scheme of the CSOW 110 :

Overall dimensions of the CSOW 110:

The lid enables access to the petri dish, while confinement is performed allowing for instance to add or change cell medium.

The static cell confiner CSOW 110 kit is composed by:

1 x CSOW 110
2 x Confinement Piston in PDMS
10 x Confinement Slides – 16 mm (diameter) glass slides/cover slips with micro-structures in PDMS (pillars) that enable the confinement

Available confinement heights – from 1, 2, 3, … up to 20 um (you can choose up to 3 heights to integrate your kit)

If you want to make your slides adhesive to your cells or not (optional):

Aliquots of extracellular matrix protein for cell adhesion (for example, fibronectin) in the right buffer solution
Aliquots of anti-adhesive molecule (poly-ethylene glycol) ready to bind on the slides

If this device does not fit with your constraints, get in touch with us! We can personalize it for you!