HyStem®-HP Cell Culture Scaffold Kit

Description

• General description: The HyStem®-HP Cell Culture Scaffold Kit provides an excellent starting point for optimizing the matrix for stem cell culture, where slowly released growth factors are crucial in re-creating a stem cell niche. To affect specific cell performance, growth factors or ECM proteins may be added to the HyStem-HP hydrogel. Unlike animal-derived ECM products, this kit contains three fully chemically defined components, which are nonimmunogenic:HyStem®-HP – a thiol-modified hyaluronan (a major constituent of native ECM), carboxymethyl hyaluronic acid-thiopropanoyl hydrazide (CMHA-S, CMHA-DTPH, carboxymethyl hyaluronic acid-DTPH) with heparinthiopropanoyl hydrazide (HP-DTPH). HyStem-HP (CMHA-DTPH with HP-DTPH) contains 99.7 wt% CMHA-DTPH and 0.3 wt% HP-DTPH.Gelin-S™ – a thiol-modified gelatin (denatured collagen), carboxymethyl gelatin-thiopropanoyl hydrazide (GTN-DTPH, carboxymethyl gelatin-DTPH)Extralink® – a thiol-reactive crosslinker, polyethylene glycol diacrylate (MW = 3,400 g/mole, PEGDA)
• Features and Benefits: Customizable, well characterized and consistent, Hystem-HP hydrogel cell culture scaffolds provide a complex, three dimensional environment in which cells are able to proliferate, much as they would in vivo. Customizable - each distinct cell type in a multicellular organism has its own unique microenvironment. Hystem-HP offers the flexibility to tailor the environments of cultured cells to mimic their in vivo counterparts and optimize proliferation and differentiation.Synthetic - As a synthetic matrix, Hystem-HP offers greater control of the cellular environment than ambiguous extracted ECM alternatives. All components are well characterized and consistently formulated. Hystem-HP contains Hyaluronic acid (synthetic), Extralink (synthetic), Gelin-S (porcine), Heparin and Water.Biologically accurate - Rich in hyaluronic acid and denatured collagen, the Hystem-HP hydrogel closely mimics the complex three dimensional cellular environments found in life, providing an optimal environment for culturing your cells.
• Legal Information: Extralink is a registered trademark of Glycosan BioSystems, Inc.