FWD: RE: Stainless steel screens

From: Dennis Broud 301-594-5879 FAX 301-594-3037 (BROUDD@CDER.FDA.GOV)
Date: Thu Aug 12 1999 - 16:01:50 EST


Another US source , and an alternative method

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Try Sigma Chemical Company. See page 2392 of the 1999 catalog. Catalog numbers are S1145 for the cup that holds the screens Screens themselves are: S0770 for 40 mesh S0895 for 50 mesh S1020 for 60 mesh S3770 for 80 mesh S3895 for 100 mesh S4020 for 150 mesh S4195 for 200 mesh Alternative method for mouse spleens. Use Falcon #2350 Cell Strainer-- Has a 70 um mesh nylon membrane, comes sterile in individual packages, comes in cases of 50. You can get from a number of lab suppliers, I've bought them from Daigger and Lab Source. It is a nice little plastic basket that will fit in the well of a 6-well plate. We push mice spleens through this mesh with the plunger from a sterile 1 or 3 ml syringe. You can hold the baskets easily with a small hemostat. Then you can throw away the basket and the plunger. No cleanup. We used this method for SCID-Hu-PBL mouse model in animals infected with HIV. Cells were good for co-culture, as well as flow cytometry.



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