
Practical Tissue Culture Applications
- 1st Edition - January 28, 1979
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Karl Maramorosch
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 3 1 2 1 9 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 1 5 0 1 7 - 0
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Request a sales quotePractical Tissue Culture Applications contains the proceedings of a conference held at the International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases in Nairobi, Kenya, August 24-29, 1978. This book aims to describe some of the more important practical applications of in vitro techniques in a simple, easily understandable manner. Organized into three sections, with a total of 27 chapters, this book provides critical reviews, describes various techniques, and presents complete step-by-step methodology. It emphasizes applications pertaining to the health and economy in developing nations. In particular, this book discusses the pitfalls in preparing general purpose culture media, balanced salt solutions, and the procedures followed in the development of modern in vitro techniques. It also describes techniques for cultivation of vertebrate cells and organs; plant tissue culture and its numerous applications; and electron microscopy of cultured cell. This book explains as well virus isolation and identification in cell cultures, mass production of cells for vaccines, and use of cultured cells for drug evaluation. The applications of in vitro techniques to parasitology are explored in numerous chapters of this book. Considering the potential benefit of application of in vitro techniques, this reference material will be of interest both in developed and developing countries.
Contributors
Preface
Section I Introduction to In Vitro Techniques
Chapter 1 Balanced Salt Solutions and General Purpose Culture Media
Chapter 2 Vertebrate Cell Culture: An Overview
Chapter 3 Plant Tissue Culture and Its Importance to Agriculture
Chapter 4 Common Problems in Tissue Culture Work in Developing Countries
Section II Applications of In Vitro Techniques
Chapter 5 Preparation of Cultured Cells for Electron Microscopy
Chapter 6 Isolation and Identification of Human Viruses
Chapter 7 Vertebrate and Invertebrate Cell Systems for the Isolation and Identification of Arboviruses
Chapter 8 The Application of Environmental Control to Continuous Culture and Vaccine Production
Chapter 9 Roller-Bottle Anchored Cell Cultures for the Production of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Purified Viral and Protein Vaccines
Chapter 10 Immunologic Assay for Malnutrition
Chapter 11 Culturing Lymphocytes for the Assessment of Immune Function and the Action of Antilymphocytic Agents
Chapter 12 Use of Tissue Culture to Detect Substances with Antiviral or Antitumor Activity
Chapter 13 Tissue Culture Applications for Plant Quarantine
Chapter 14 Animal and Plant Tissue Culture Decontamination
Section III Cultivation of Parasites
Chapter 15 Consideration of Electrolytes and Nutritional Components for the Propagation of Obligate Intracellular Agents in Cell Cultures
Chapter 16 Propagation of Theileria
Chapter 17 Techniques for in Vitro Cultivation of Erythrocytic and Exoerythrocytic States of Malarial Parasites
Chapter 18 Continuous in Vitro Cultivation of Plasmodium falciparum in Human Erythrocytes: Description of a Simple Technique to Obtain High Yields of Parasites
Chapter 19 In Vitro Cultivation of Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium malariae
Chapter 20 Immunological Studies on Schistosomes Cultured in Vitro
Chapter 21 Cultivation of Salivarian Trypanosomes: Application to in Vitro Studies of African Trypanosomiases
Chapter 22 Methods in Mosquito Cell Culture
Chapter 23 Trends in Tick Cell Culture
Chapter 24 Tsetse Fly Tissue Culture and Its Application to the Propagation of African Trypanosomes in Vitro
Chapter 25 Biological Control of Insect Pests with Viruses
Chapter 26 Combination of in Vitro Feeding Techniques and Tissue Culture for Study of Arthropod-Borne Disease Agents
Section IV Future Prospects
Chapter 27 Future Prospects of Tissue Culture in Microbiology
Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 28, 1979
- No. of pages (eBook): 442
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780124312197
- eBook ISBN: 9780323150170
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Karl Maramorosch
Professor Karl Maramorosch works at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
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