PneumaCult™ Apical-Out Airway Organoid Medium
Overview
With PneumaCult™ Apical-Out Airway Organoid Medium, you can grow polarized airway organoids with outward-facing, differentiated ciliated cells in AggreWell™400 24-well plates (Catalog #34415)—without the use of cell culture inserts. To maximize experimental reproducibility, this medium is formulated without serum or BPE. For a complete apical-out airway organoid culture workflow, expand your HBECs or HAECs in PneumaCult™-Ex Plus Medium (Catalog #05040) prior to initiating organoid culture with PneumaCult™ Apical-Out Airway Organoid Medium.
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⦁ Easy downstream processing with a Matrigel®-free protocol
⦁ Generates homogeneous organoids across donors
⦁ Suitable for high-throughput drug screening applications
- PneumaCult™ Apical-Out Airway Organoid Medium, Catalog #100-0620
- PneumaCult™ Apical-Out Airway Organoid Basal Medium, 450 mL
- PneumaCult™ Apical-Out Airway Organoid 10X Supplement, 50 mL
- PneumaCult™ Apical-Out Airway Organoid 1000X Supplement, 500 µL
- PneumaCult™ Apical-Out Airway Organoid Medium with AggreWell™400 (24-well plate), Catalog #100-0746
- PneumaCult™ Apical-Out Airway Organoid Basal Medium, 450 mL
- PneumaCult™ Apical-Out Airway Organoid 10X Supplement, 50 mL
- PneumaCult™ Apical-Out Airway Organoid 1000X Supplement, 500 µL
- AggreWell™400, 24-well Plate, 1 pack
- PneumaCult™ Apical-Out Airway Organoid Medium with AggreWell™400 (5 x 24-well plates), Catalog #100-0747
- PneumaCult™ Apical-Out Airway Organoid Basal Medium, 450 mL
- PneumaCult™ Apical-Out Airway Organoid 10X Supplement, 50 mL
- PneumaCult™ Apical-Out Airway Organoid 1000X Supplement, 500 µL
- AggreWell™400, 24-well Plate, 5 pack
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Figure 1. Generation of Apical-Out Airway Organoids Using the PneumaCult™ Apical-Out Airway Organoid Medium
In the two-dimensional expansion phase of the human apical-out airway organoid culture protocol, HBECs or HAECs are expanded using PneumaCult™-Ex Plus Medium. The HBECs or HAECs are then plated into an AggreWell™400 24-well plate and allowed to aggregate for 1 - 6 days using PneumaCult™ Apical-Out Airway Organoid Medium. Following the aggregation, the cells are dislodged from the microwells and the aggregate suspension is transfered to a 24-well flat-bottom plate and differentiated for 9 - 14 days using PneumaCult™ Apical-Out Airway Organoid Medium to generate apical-out airway organoids that display beating cilia.
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