Flow Cell

Stovall Flow Cells provide continuous culture chambers for real time, nondestructive, microscopic study of biofilms.

Stovall Life Science offers the biofilm investigator an affordable, sterile, consumable flow cell apparatus for creation of biofilms, and for direct, non-destructive, on-line microscopic examination of biofilms. The gamma irradiated flow cell, bubble trap and connective tubing necessary for experiments is completely assembled in its airtight package, and needs only to be opened and connected to a reservoir of culture medium and a peristaltic pump to start a biofilm experiment. This single use set-up eliminates the possibility of carryover from one experiment to the next, and eliminates time consuming sterilization methods which either require equipment not easily accessible to most researchers (ethylene oxide chambers) or are, in fact, disinfection methods (hypochlorite). Moreover, the bubble trap design creates a low positive pressure on the flow of medium, thus mitigating the undesirable peristaltic pulsation in liquid delivery to the flow cell.

Stovall provides two types of flow cell apparati: (1) a shallow (1 mm) three channel flow cell to test wild type against mutants simultaneously, and (2) the larger (8mm deep), single channel, Convertible flow cell with detachable, reattachable cover to subject test samples - polymers, metal, or other - to cells injected into the chamber through the self-sealing injection port. Both products are offered in several configurations.

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