PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR IN-VITRO TESTING OF EFFECTS ON BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES

摘要

A process and device for testing in vitro effects on preferably biological structures are in particular useful as means for analysis, medical diagnosis, tolerability, toxicity, secondary effects and efficiency testing. Tissues or sets of tissues such as organs or systems of organs of animals, human beings and plants, which constitute biological structures, are exposed to chemical, physical, biological and/or other influences. A sample of the biological structure is rinsed with a rinsing fluid (liquid, gas or another pressure-isotropic medium), and the course of the rinsing operation is evaluated in order to detect product specifically generated in the probe by the exerted influence, in particular mediators such as cytokines, transmitter or signalling substances, for example tissue hormones and biotransformers.