Cell Culture Surfaces
This Chart will help you find the best polystyrene-based surface to meet your cell culture needs. Click on the desired surface for additional technical information.
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Corning Surface
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Binding Interaction
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Effects on Cell Attachment
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Untreated polystyrene
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Hydrophobic
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Reduces most cell attachment but not as much as Ultra-Low Attachment Surface
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Ultra-Low Attachment
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Hydrophilic and nonionic
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Hydrogel layer prevents cell attachment forcing cells to stay in suspension
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Standard tissue culture treated
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Hydrophilic and ionic (negatively charged)
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Allows most cells to attach and spread on polystyrene
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Corning® CellBIND®
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Hydrophilic and ionic (negatively charged)
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Improves attachment and spreading of some cells to polystyrene compared to standard tissue culture treatments
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Poly-D-lysine
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Hydrophilic and ionic (positively charged)
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Coating improves cell attachment and binding of some cell types to polystyrene
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Corning Osteo Assay
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Crystalline calcium phosphate
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Specialized surface for bone cell growth, differentiation and functional analysis
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Corning Synthemax®
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Active peptide acrylate
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Specialized synthetic surface for stem cell proliferation and differentiation
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For information on modified polystyrene surfaces on microplates for the binding or covalent immobilization of proteins, nucleic acids, and other types of biomolecules for use in assays see Assay Surfaces.