Cell culture system for pre-clinical testing of medicaments has first compartment with syntopic culture having tissue cells and immune cells, and other one with blood cells

摘要

The cell culture system (1) has an upper compartment (2) and a lower compartment (3). They communicate via a dividing layer through which cellular material can pass. The first compartment contains a syntopic culture which includes both tissue cells and immune cells, while the second compartment contains blood cells (7, 8).