MEDIUM FOR CULTIVATION OF ANIMAL CELL

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the lowering of physiological function of a cultured cell caused by the culture of animal cell by adding a sugar chain synthesis inhibitor to a medium for the culture of animal cell. SOLUTION: An animal cell is cultured by adding 0.01-10mM (preferably 0.1-2mM) of a sugar chain synthesis inhibitor to a medium for the culture of animal cell such as Alpha MEM medium. The sugar chain synthesis inhibitor preferably has a furanose ring or a pyranose ring. The medium is useful e.g. for the investigation of the physiological function of animal cell, the treatment of various diseases caused by the disorder of the physiological function, the use of useful substances secreted by the cell as a drug and the adoptive immunity therapy or gene therapy using blood cells cocultured by using the cell as a supporting cell.