SUMILON™ Companion Plate for Cell Culture Insert

Products

SUMILON™ Companion Plate for Cell Culture Insert is compatible with six different commercially available cell culture inserts. This product is designed to securely hold the cell culture inserts in place using a notch at the well aperture. Additionally, a port adjoining the main well (“the Port”) provides sufficient space for pipette tip insertion, facilitating easy cell culture medium exchange and sampling in various experiments, such as drug permeability testing, without the risk of cell damage and contamination. It also supports running experiments and TEER measurements with automation.

Features

Holding different types of cell culture inserts in place with the designed notch at the well aperture, securing users to tilt the plate and the insert for manual or automated handling.

Holding different types of cell culture inserts in place

Medium exchange and sampling can be performed from the plate through a port adjoining the main well (“the Port”), without lifting the inserts. The Port also provides sufficient space for the electrode of a TEER measurement instrument.

The well bottom, including the Port area, is cell culture-treated and offers a culture area comparable to conventional 24-well plates (187.5 mm²), enabling co-culture in both the insert and the plate bottom.
A step on the well wall mitigates the capillary-driven rise in liquid level between the well and the insert. Furthermore, a groove on the well wall aids in draining the culture medium.

The space surrounding each well is prepared to accommodate sterilized water, which helps prevent drying of the culture medium.

Distance from the bottom of various inserts to the well bottom of the plate

CORNING Transwell™	FALCON™ CellCultureInserts	SABEU cellQART™	KANTO CHEMICAL Vitrigel™	Greiner Bio-one ThinCert™	MERCK MILLIPORE Millicell™
1.75mm	1.50mm	1.50mm	1.90mm	1.65mm	1.50mm

Applying the actual measurement dimensions of each company's insert as measured by our company. There may be slight differences between the actual usage distance and the measured value.

Instruction Videos

For instructions on how to use, please see here.

Application

For various cell culture insert experiments, including drug permeability testing, toxicity testing, cell migration and invasion assays, and co-culture studies.