Try: SEFAR America Inc 4221 N.E. 34th Street Kansas City, MO 64117 816-452-1520 They make "synthetic screening and filtration media" including Nitex nylon mesh. According to the catalogue, they do have meshes in the 5-20 um range. Heidi > Dear All, > > Does anybody know a commercial supplier of (approximately) > 20-micrometer pore mesh (or cells strainers or inserts for tissue > culture) ? > > I am asking because I want to do cell sorting of a cell population with > 10% of them larger then 20-micrometer. If I use a 100 micron nozzle, then > the flow shall probably be turbulent because of the larger particles, so I > would like to get rid of them. The mesh needs not to be exactly 20um but > should be in this range (I saw 40um cell strainers from Falcon and 12 um > pore cell culture inserts from Sigma but these are either too big or too > small). > > Thank you very much. > > Victor Turcanu > Department of Pathology & Microbiology > University of Bristol, UK > Victor.Turcanu@bristol.ac.uk > Dr. Heidi Engelhardt, Adjunct Professor Department of Animal and Poultry Science University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario CANADA N1G 2W1 phone: 519-824-4120, ext. 3658 or 8355 fax: 519-767-0573 email: hengel@aps.uoguelph.ca www: http://www.aps.uoguelph.ca/faculty/heidi.html
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