Language
Pasturel, A., Strale, P. O., & Studer, V. (2020). Tailoring Common Hydrogels into 3D Cell Culture Templates. Advanced healthcare materials, 9(18), e2000519.
Stencell are ready-to-use silicon chambers that you can stick and remove for cellular confinement or dynamic assays, such as migration or wound-healing.
Stencell was designed to standardize your experiments and minimize the consumption of reagents.
It is very helpful when you are working with super expensive reagents or very rare cell lines, and when you want to test various experimental hypothesis.
Applications
Cell migration and wound healing with Presto and Allegro
Interaction dominant/dominated cells
Defined regions of Rab5A overexpression
Parallelized experiments with Quartet and Nonet
Differentiation of stem cells or zebrafish embryonic cells
Cell behavior in confined conditions
Confined experiments with Solo
Fixed epithelial cells growing confluent
Technical information
Material: PDMS
Kit content: 100 stencils (2 sheets of 50 identical stencils)
Thickness: 250 µm
Sizes & shapes:
- Solo: 1 circular well - Diam. 12 mm
- Quartet: 4 circular wells - Diam. 3 mm
- Nonet: 9 circular wells - Diam. 3 mm
- Presto: 2 oblong wells spaced by 0.25 mm
- Allegro: 2 oblong wells spaced by 0.50 mm
Storage: up to 2 years, at room temperature under their protective sheets.
