MEA Biochip Applications

The multi-channel cell/tissue monitoring approach is used to investigate system properties in excitable single cell cultures and tissue slices.

MEA biochips can be used with several in-vitro preparations in different culture systems:
• Dissociated cell cultures (neurons, heart muscle cells, ... )
• Organotypic tissue cultures (hippocampus, cortex, spinal cord, ... ) and co-cultures
• Acute tissue slices (hippocampus, cerebellum, spinal cord, retina, ... )
• Stem cell derived cultures
Most experiments are done in the following fields of study:
• epilepsy
• synaptic plasticity
• development
• regeneration
• biological rhythm
• network oscillators

Acute rat hippocampus slice	Organotypic rat spinal cord slice	Dissociated chick embryonic motoneurons culture	Rat monolayer heart muscle cells culture