Structure, organization and biology of animal cell
General concepts of animal cell culture
Proliferation, differentiation and dedifferentiation
Expression of proteins in animal cells
Cell Culture laboratory
Media -Development of simple growth media, BSS
-Chemical, physical and metabolic functions of different constituents of culture medium
-Role of CO2 and serum
Serum and protein free defined media and their applications
Growth kinetics of cultured cells
Primary and established cell line cultures
Cell lines: A general concept
Disaggregation of tissue and primary culture
Cell separation
Organ and histotypic cultures
Cell cloning and micromanipulation
Transfection techniques
Cell transformation
Scaling-up of animal cells
Cell culture based vaccines
Stem cell culture, Embryonic stem cells and their applications
Cell hybridization, Hybridomas and their selection, application of cell hybridization