RE: 20 micrometer-pore mesh

From: Van Bockstaele, Dirk (Dirk.Van.Bockstaele@uza.uia.ac.be)
Date: Wed Jul 14 1999 - 11:00:08 EST


Dear Victor,
We are using woven nylon macroporous filter sheats "Spectra Mesh" that can
be obtained in a variety of mesh sizes at "Spectrum", 1100 Rankin road,
Houston, Texas, tel. 713 443 2900, fax 713 443 3100.
I hope this can be of help.
Best Regards,
Dirk
Prof. Dirk Van Bockstaele, PhD
Laboratory of Hematology
Antwerp University Hospital
Wilrijkstraat 10
B-2650 Edegem
Belgium
tel. 32 3 821 3900, fax 32 3 825 1148, 
e-mail dirk.van.bockstaele@uza.uia.ac.be


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> Van: 	V Turcanu, Department of Pathology &
> Microbiology[SMTP:Victor.Turcanu@bristol.ac.uk]
> Verzonden: 	maandag 12 juli 1999 13:51
> Aan: 	Cytometry Mailing List
> Onderwerp: 	20 micrometer-pore mesh
> 
> 
> 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
> 



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