
DEPARTMENT OF TISSUE CULTURE AND CELL CULTURE
DEPARTMENT OF TISSUE CULTURE AND CELL CULTURE
- Cell culture section of CRL is well equipped and offers a range of assays to perform various activities. These include:
- Culture of Fibroblasts from human gingival tissue and periodontal ligament.
- Culture of stem cells from various dental sources such as gingival, periodontal ligament, dental pulp and apical papilla tissues.
- Induction of stem cell differentiation into osteoblasts, odontoblasts, adipocytes, chondrocytes.
- Basic and advanced assays to test for cell viability, cellular toxicity, cell proliferation, DNA fragmentation and apoptosis
- Culture and maintenance of cell lines from tissues and various cancer derived cell lines.
- Purification and maintenance of oral cancer cell lines derived from patients.
- Development of 3D cell culture models for drug testing.
- MTT Assay
- CCK-8 Assay
- XTT Assay
- Neutral Red Assay
- Crystal violet Assay
- Alizarin Red Assay
- Oil Red O Assay
- Alcian Blue Assay
- Alkaline Phosphatase Assay
- Lactate Dehydrogenase Assay



Contact address
Maratha Mandal’s Central Research Laboratory,
Maratha Mandal's NGH Institute of Dental Sciences & Research Centre,
RS No. 47A/2, Bauxite Road, Belgaum, Karnataka -590010. India
0831-2477682, 0831-2479323 - FAX
mmcrl01@gmail.com