MEASURING DEVICE

• Main Authors: SHIMIZU TATSUYA, KUBO HIROTSUGU, KIKUCHI TETSUTARO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 08.03.2018
• Subjects: APPARATUS FOR ENZYMOLOGY OR MICROBIOLOGY; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL ORENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES; ENZYMOLOGY; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEICACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; PHYSICS; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; SPIRITS; TESTING; VINEGAR; WINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide measuring devices capable of quantitatively and accurately measuring contraction ability which a cardiac muscle tissue formed from a cell sheet has.SOLUTION: A measuring device 10 for beating capability of a cardiac muscle tissue HM autonomously beating has a measurement stand 20 having a housing part 21 in which a cell culture fluid is contained, a pressure sensor 27 installed inside of the housing part 21, the measurement stand 20 having an aperture 22 in which some of the housing part 21 are opened, and a fitting part 23 which mounts the cardiac muscle tissue HM around the aperture 22.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 【課題】細胞シートで形成された心筋組織が有する収縮能力を定量的に精度良く測定することが可能な測定装置を提供する。【解決手段】自律拍動する心筋組織ＨＭの拍動能力に関する測定装置１０であって、細胞培養液が収容される収容部２１を有する測定台２０と、収容部２１の内部に設置された圧力センサ２７と、を備え、測定台２０は、収容部２１の一部が開口された開口部２２と、開口部２２の周囲に心筋組織ＨＭを取り付ける取付部２３と、を備える。【選択図】図２