Table 1 Overview highlighting examples of 3D cell culture methods and their respective commercially available products

From: Generation and applications of cardiac spheroids

Method

Product

Manufacturer

References

Hanging drop

Perfecta 3D®

3D Biomatrix (MI, USA)

6

Elplasia™ Mpc 350 plates

Kuraray Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan)

12

GravityTRAPTM Utra-low Attachment plates

InSphero (Schlieren, Switzerland)

24

Forced floating

(Low-Adhesive Surfaces)

PrimeSurface® ULA Cell Culture Plates

Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd. (NH, USA)

37,38

AggreWell™ plates

STEMCELL Technologies (Vancouver, Canada)

39,40

Nunclon™ Sphera™ 96-Well, Nunclon Sphera Treated, U-Shaped-Bottom Microplate

Thermo Fisher Scientific (MA, USA)

7

Agarose-micro moulds

MicroTissues® 3D Petri Dish® micro-mould spheroids

MicroTissues, Inc., (MA, USA)

41

Spinner flasks

Corning® Disposable Spinner Flasks

Merck (Darmstadt, Germany)

42,44

Microfluidics

AIM 3D Cell Culture Chips

AIM Biotech PTE. Ltd. (Singapore)

49