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- Title
Scale‐down simulators for mammalian cell culture as tools to access the impact of inhomogeneities occurring in large‐scale bioreactors.
- Authors
Paul, Katrin; Herwig, Christoph
- Abstract
During the scale‐up of a bioprocess, not all characteristics of the process can be kept constant throughout the different scales. This typically results in increased mixing times with increasing reactor volumes. The poor mixing leads in turn to the formation of concentration gradients throughout the reactor and exposes cells to varying external conditions based on their location in the bioreactor. This can affect process performance and complicate process scale‐up. Scale‐down simulators, which aim at replicating the large‐scale environment, expose the cells to changing environmental conditions. This has the potential to reveal adaptation mechanisms, which cells are using to adjust to rapidly fluctuating environmental conditions and can identify possible root causes for difficulties maintaining similar process performance at different scales. This understanding is of utmost importance in process validation. Additionally, these simulators also have the potential to be used for selecting cells, which are most robust when encountering changing extracellular conditions. The aim of this review is to summarize recent work in this interesting and promising area with the focus on mammalian bioprocesses, since microbial processes have been extensively reviewed.
- Subjects
CELL culture; CONCENTRATION gradient; BIOCHEMICAL engineering; BIOREACTORS; HOMOGENEITY
- Publication
Engineering in Life Sciences, 2020, Vol 20, Issue 5/6, p197
- ISSN
1618-0240
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/elsc.201900162