SPECIFIC CELL ABSORBER

• Main Authors: NINOMIYA IKUZUMI, YASUTAKE KANCHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 05.06.2008
• Subjects: CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY; DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROMTHE BODY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS; TRANSPORTING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a specific cell absorber for selectively absorbing a specific cell from a cell-containing liquid which has a variety of properties by improving the cell absorption selectivity of the specific cell absorbing material where a ligand having affinity to the specific cell is held in a water insoluble carrier. SOLUTION: In the specific cell absorber, the specific cell absorbing material for holding the ligand having affinity to surface antigens of the specific cell in a fibriform water insoluble carrier filling a container having a blood entrance and a blood exit. The specific cell absorber has an average fiber diameter of the specific cell absorbing material between 7 μm and 20 μm and an average inter-fiber distance of the specific cell absorbing material filling the container between 11 μm and 38 μm. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT