Cell Culture Surfaces
This Chart will help you find the best polystyrene-based surface to meet your cell culture needs. Click on the desired surface for additional technical information.
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Corning Surface
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Binding Interaction
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Effects on Cell Attachment
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Untreated polystyrene |
Hydrophobic |
Reduces most cell attachment but not as much as Ultra-Low Attachment Surface |
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Ultra-Low Attachment |
Hydrophilic and nonionic |
Hydrogel layer prevents cell attachment forcing cells to stay in suspension |
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Standard tissue culture treated |
Hydrophilic and ionic (negatively charged) |
Allows most cells to attach and spread on polystyrene |
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Corning® CellBIND® |
Hydrophilic and ionic (negatively charged) |
Improves attachment and spreading of some cells to polystyrene compared to standard tissue culture treatments |
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Poly-D-lysine |
Hydrophilic and ionic (positively charged) |
Coating improves cell attachment and binding of some cell types to polystyrene |
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Corning Osteo Assay surface |
Crystalline calcium phosphate
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Specialized surface for bone cell growth, differentiation and functional analysis |
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Corning SynthemaxTM
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Active peptide acrylate |
Specialized synthetic surface for stem cell proliferation and differentiation |
For information on modified polystyrene surfaces on microplates for the binding or covalent immobilization of proteins, nucleic acids, and other types of biomolecules for use in assays see Assay Surfaces.