A Brief Concept of Cell Culture: Challenges, Prospects and Applications

Abstract

Cell culture is an in vitro technique in which cells, tissues, or organs (animal origin) are artificially grown with the support of an artificial environment that encompasses culture medium, CO2 level, pH indicator, temperature keeping tissues alive and growing appropriately. Organ culture, Primary explant culture, and Cell culture among them cell culture widely used for the understanding of cell growth, normal functions, identification of growth factors, viral vaccine development, recombinant DNA (rDNA) technology, and immunobiological research. Due to high feasibility, cell culture practices highly demandable in the pharmaceutical industry. As well as animal cell culture used in laboratory research to study the cytotoxicity of new drug metabolic studies, aging, therapeutic proteins, the effects of drugs and toxic compounds on the cells and mutagenesis and carcinogenesis. There are a lot of issues in cell culture, Mycoplasma is one of the major. During cell culture, a single antibiotic often cannot kill the mycoplasma. Besides, culture media, pH indicator, incubation, cryopreservation, thawing, passaging of cells, and trypsinization have a great impact on cell culture. This chapter will help the reader to understand the whole process of cell culture and its applications, which will take them one step forward in their virology and cell culture research along with inspiration. This chapter also aids in the concept of cell count, cell suspension, CCF measurement, MOI (Multiplicity of Infection), and cell infection. Eventually, the reader will get a crystal clear concept of cell culture.