Patent ID: 7399629
Filing Date: 2008-07-15
Classification: C12M

Abstract:
1. A cell/tissue culture apparatus comprising: a culture chamber formed in a culture unit for accommodating therein a material to be cultivated in a stationary state and circulating a culture fluid through ports provided at a side wall of the culture chamber; a disc accommodating space formed in the culture unit together with the culture chamber and communicating with the culture chamber, said disc accommodating space being filled with the culture fluid; a disc rotatably installed in the culture fluid of the disc accommodating space separately from the material to be cultivated and having a flat face at a face side opposite to the material to be cultivated, wherein a circumferential flow is produced in the culture fluid when the disc is rotated, and a physical stimulation is applied to the material to be cultivated by the circumferential flow; and rotary driving means for applying a rotating force to the disc from an outside of the culture chamber in a state where it does not contact the disc, said rotary driving means being provided with an outer periphery part inserted into an annular recess part formed at an outer surface of said culture unit detachably in a non-contact state.