wrong flow rate on your cells

Most researchers working in the field of cell biology work with a wrong flow rate: main reasons & solutions

shear stress cell biology flow rate

A wrong flow rate implies:

A wrong chemical response of cell
A wrong medium control
A wrong drug delivery
Uncontrolled shear stress

We provide a simple solution enabling to know the real flow rate delivered by any type of fluid handling systems.

Need to know your real delivered flow rate?

The knowledge of the real flow rate on cells is possible

There is a solution available enabling to know the real flow rate in you cells culture chamber. At the end it is a benefit for your experiments and then for science.

All you need is an accurate flow sensor enabling you to know the real flow rate delivered by your syringe pumps.

ELVEFLOW® provides a complete and Plug-&-Play solution to enhance your experiments. Connect and monitor your flow rate here!

main technical reasons about wrong flow rate on cells

microfluidic syringe pump The syringe pumps are the most used fluid handling systems for microbiology experiments. Most of the time there is a mismatch between the setting flow-rate and the real flow-rate applied in cell culture chambers. Researchers do not know the real flow rate of fluids (drugs, medium etc…) on their cells which involves experimental errors.

Microbiologists mainly work at low flow rates to limit shear stess on their cells. And particulary at low flow rate, syringe pumps are inaccurate due to several factors (main ones ranking in order of probability):

Hydrodynamic resistance of the fluidic network
Compliance of the fluidic network
Presence of bubbles in the fluidic network
Clogging of the fluidic network

syringe pump oscillation The supplied syringe pumps’ flow rate is false. Rigorously, it is very imprecise. Indeed, especially at the syringe pumps’ start it takes few seconds to several hours to establish the required flow rate.

more details on cell culture with syringe pumps principle

On the graph below (with a simple experiment) we show the time when the expected flow rate delivered by a syringe pump is false. The red curve represent the response time of a syringe pump. The blue one the response time of a pressure pump associated to a flow sensor. A pressure sensor is very responsive and is considered as the required flow rate, then it proves how a syringe pump is not relevant for researchers monitoring cell culture..

flow control shear stress cell culture medium

The response time mainly depends of the flow control apparatus (of course) but also of the 4 main factors previously established. We provide deeper details in the following page.

IMPROVE FLOW CONTROL USING FLOW RESTRICTORS

Inadequate resistance leads to poor flow control. We provide here a solution to improve the accuracy of their experiments.

GETTING ACCURATE DRUG DELIVERY

Drug discovery and development are key topics nowadays. We provide here answers for a more effective and targeted drug administration.

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