Treatment apparatus for cell culture solution, method for treating cell culture solution, and method for producing product
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorsNaomichi HIKICHI, Shunichi YOSHIDA
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Abstract
There is provided a treatment apparatus for a cell culture solution, the treatment apparatus including a bioreactor that accommodates, contains, and stores the cell culture solution, a pipe line in communication with the bioreactor, and a pump unit that feeds the cell culture solution to the pipe line, in which the pump unit includes two or more pump portions that are disposed in the pipe line and that expand and contract in a radial direction of the pipe line, a method for treating a cell culture solution, and a method for producing a product.
Claims16
A treatment apparatus for a cell culture solution, the treatment apparatus comprising:
- a bioreactor that accommodates the cell culture solution;
- a pipe line in communication with the bioreactor;
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- a pump unit that feeds the cell culture solution to the pipe line,
- wherein the pump unit includes two or more pump portions that are disposed in the pipe line and that expand and contract in a radial direction of the pipe line.
A method for treating a cell culture solution, the method comprising:
- a feeding step of disposing, in a pipe line in communication with a bioreactor that accommodates the cell culture solution, two or more pump portions that expand and contract in a radial direction of the pipe line, and feeding the cell culture solution by expanding and contracting the pump portions.
A method for producing a product which is a product obtained by culturing cells, the method comprising:
- a culturing step of culturing the cells in a bioreactor that accommodates a cell culture solution;
- a feeding step of disposing, in a pipe line in communication with a bioreactor, two or more pump portions that expand and contract in a radial direction of the pipe line, and feeding the cell culture solution to a filtration unit disposed on the pipe line by expanding and contracting the pump portions;
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- a collection step of collecting a filtrate containing the product filtered from the cell culture solution by the filtration unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.