A monitoring cell for the analysis of cell and tissue growth, with a housing enclosing an interior space with walls and at least one base plate, wherein the housing is provided with at least one media supply on at least one side of the interior space and at least one media discharge on at least one other side of the interior space and with a number of electrodes arranged in the interior space, characterised in that - at least one receiving device for receiving at least one carrier object and at least one receiving device for receiving at least one cell substrate or at least one receiving device for receiving at least one carrier object and at least one cell substrate are provided, - a gap is present between the carrier object and the cell substrate at least at the start time of the analysis, so that an in vivo situation to be imaged in vitro is simulated between a carrier to be colonized and a substrate, and - the electrodes are designed both for generating spatially and temporally defined electric and/or electromagnetic fields and also as means for measuring electrical quantities, wherein the generation of spatially defined electric and/or electromagnetic fields is achieved by a three-dimensional arrangement of the electrodes in the interior space, and a temporally defined generation of electric and/or electromagnetic fields is achieved by the electrodes being controllable by a control and computing unit connected to the electrodes in terms of signal technology, and the individual electrodes of the monitoring cell are connected to a multifunction switch or to a switching matrix as switching means and this switching means establishes an electrical contact between a defined selection of electrodes and a series of measuring lines. - at least one receiving device for receiving at least one carrier object and at least one receiving device for receiving at least one cell substrate or at least one receiving device for receiving at least one carrier object and at least one cell substrate are provided, - a gap is present between the carrier object and the cell substrate at least at the start time of the analysis, so that an in vivo situation to be imaged in vitro is simulated between a carrier to be colonized and a substrate, and - the electrodes are designed both for generating spatially and temporally defined electric and/or electromagnetic fields and also as means for measuring electrical quantities, wherein the generation of spatially defined electric and/or electromagnetic fields is achieved by a three-dimensional arrangement of the electrodes in the interior space, and a temporally defined generation of electric and/or electromagnetic fields is achieved by the electrodes being controllable by a control and computing unit connected to the electrodes in terms of signal technology, and the individual electrodes of the monitoring cell are connected to a multifunction switch or to a switching matrix as switching means and this switching means establishes an electrical contact between a defined selection of electrodes and a series of measuring lines. wherein the generation of spatially defined electric and/or electromagnetic fields is achieved by a three-dimensional arrangement of the electrodes in the interior space, and a temporally defined generation of electric and/or electromagnetic fields is achieved by the electrodes being controllable by a control and computing unit connected to the electrodes in terms of signal technology, and the individual electrodes of the monitoring cell are connected to a multifunction switch or to a switching matrix as switching means and this switching means establishes an electrical contact between a defined selection of electrodes and a series of measuring lines.