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Flexcell International Corporation

Hillsborough, NC, USA

For 17 years, Flexcell(R) International Corporation has specialized in designing and

manufacturing products to service the Cytomechanics marketplace. Cytomechanics is the field

of study involving cell responses to mechanical load. Flexcell(R) takes pride in the quality of our

products and the service we provide to our customers.

Why Mechanically Culture Your Cells?

Cells are subjected to compression, tension, and shear in the body and undergo specific

biochemical changes to respond and adapt to deformation.

Stressing cells in culture simulates the in vivo environment causing dramatic morphologic and

biochemical responses. There are both short and long term changes that occur when cells are

loaded in culture, such as alterations in signaling, the rate and amount of protein synthesis,

secretion, or degradation, the rate of cell division, changes in energy metabolism, and other

changes in biochemistry and bioenergetics.

For these reasons, Flexcell® introduced tension, compression, and fluid shear systems for cell

culturing. These systems have broad applications in the biomedical research field as they

induce biochemical changes in response to applied strain, compression, or fluid flow in cells

derived from cardiac, skeletal, smooth muscle, lung, endothelium from vascular vessels, skin,

tendon, ligament, cartilage, and bone that are normally subjected to tension, compression, or

shear in vivo.

URL

http://www.flexcellint.com/

Contact

Position

Address

437 Dimmocks Mill Rd.

Hillsborough, NC 27278

Phone

919-732-1591 or 800-728-3714

Fax

919-732-5196

Email

info@flexcellint.com

Last Update

2005-05-22

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