Tube chamber system TCS^2c

The autoclavable tube chamber consists of a crystal-clear cylinder to enable a visual control of the incorporated graft or blood vessel closed on either ends with a piston allowing to install vessels of various lengths. The pistons are equipped with two sets of special adapters preventing both turbulence flow and areas of dead volume. Peripheral adapters link the outer circuit to the tube chamber which will supply the outer surface of the vessel with medium, whereas the second set of adapters connects the inner lumen of the vessel with the inner medium circuit. This chamber enables a transversal gas and substance exchange between the perfused graft lumen and the outer chamber volume which is simulating the interstitial tissue liquid.

Tube chamber

Specific advantages

• Variability in length of blood vessel or graft material
• Variety of adapters for vessels/grafts of different diameter
• Design of adapters avoiding turbulences in the  transitional zone
• Independent perfusion of inner and outer circuit
• Ability of visual control
• Its unrestricted sterilisation by means of an autoclave

Technical data

Length of chamber: 300 mm
Inner diameter of chamber: 40 mm
Outer diameter of chamber: 50 mm
Length of vessel/graft: 5 ÷ 250 mm
Diameter of vessel/graft: 2 ÷ 15 mm
Shear stress: 0 ÷ 20 dyn/cm

Rolling Unit

Specific advantages

• Designed specifically for provitro´s TCS^2cs
• Ready-to-use in CO2 incubators
• Rotation velocity can be adjusted at 6 levels
• Switching power supply included
• Adjustable to various lengths of TCS^2c

Technical data

Length of unit: 320 mm
Width of unit: 92 mm
Height of unit: 52 mm
Rotation velocity: 0.12 ÷ 0.46 rpm