On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, tessa kerre wrote: > In the lab we are preparing murine organ cell suspensions, and therefore > we need a high amount of cell strainers. Now we use individually packed > sterile cell strainers, while we would be satisfied with non-sterile > cell strainers in bulk. > I have asked some companies including BD, Nunc, etc, but none seem to > have this. > Does anyone know of a company who would supply this? > Or do you have other suggestions? Hi Tessa, Some of my users here have used polyester mesh for this sort of thing and I find that mesh is very useful for filtering samples prior to running on the cytometers. There are two sources of this based in the UK who can furnish mesh of varying pore sizes and it is also streilisable by alcohol treatment or autoclaving. I buy several metres at a time which keeps me going for ages! Contact either: Lockertex, PO Box 161, Church Street, Warrington. Cheshire. WA1 2SU UK. Tel: +44 925 51212 FAX: +44 925 630431 or Technical Fabrics (UK) Ltd, Unit 31, Colomendy Industrial Estate, Denbigh.Clywd. LL16 5TA. UK Tel: +44 1745 816166 FAX: +44 1745 816168 http://www.yell.co.uk/sites/technicalfabrics/ 70µ mesh which is what I mainly use comes in at about 15UKP per metre. Hope this helps, Derek ************************************************************************ Derek Davies Voice: (44) 0207 269 3394 FACS Laboratory, FAX: (44) 0207 269 3100 Imperial Cancer Research Fund, e_mail: derek.davies@icrf.icnet.uk London, UK mobile: 07790 604112 Web Page: http://www.icnet.uk/axp/facs/davies/index.html In tenebris lux *************************************************************************
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