Animal cell cultures industrial applications

Besides their utilization in the production of many compounds with therapeutic, diagnostic, and immunizing applications, animal cell cultures have undoubted utility in the performance of in vitro cytotoxicity tests. They can be used for the evaluation of potential anti-neoplastic agents and assessment of the safety of various products, such as pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, alimentary additives, pesticides, and industrial chemical products. Cell culture systems are frequently employed in the cancer chemotherapy field, in which their potential value for viability and cytotoxicity tests is largely accepted. Animal models play an important role in toxicity testing, but the pressure to adopt in vitro tests is growing since they present considerable economical advantages over in vivo tests. The use of animal models is limited to human metabolism studies, and there are... 

Clearly the practical application of animal cell culture has to be underpinned by well-developed laboratory protocols. There are a significant number of cell culture procedures that are used across the broad range of ceU culture applications in both academic and industrial laboratories and frequently there are several methods that can be used to solve a given problem. 

Typical industrial applications that conform to the homogeneous regime are (Shaikh and Al-Dahhan 2007) cultivation of bacteria and molds/fungi, production of single-cell protein, sewage treatment, and some specific cases of animal cell culture. Hydrotreatment of heavy fractions and coal to hydrocarbon conversion are some application relevant to the chemical industry. 

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