Research
Oxygen Measurement Core
O2M’s "Oxygen Measurement Core" is a contract research facility. It provides full cycle in vitro and small animal in vivo oxygen measurement services.
All experiments are performed using O2M’s preclinical oxygen imager, JIVA-25™, that can accommodate sample size up to 40 mm.
O2M can carry research projects to its full experimental cycle, from sample preparation and cell seeding to in vitro and small animal in vivo oxygen imaging.
O2M can also provide biologic assays and histology assessments, publication quality data/images, and support your submission to peer reviewed journals leading up to publication of the work.
O2M’s clients are academic institutions, research foundations, and industry partners. See our recent publications from Oxygen Measurement Core as an example.
Example Projects and Samples
Example Projects
- In vitro longitudinal (hours/days) oxygen assessment of acellular and cell loaded biomaterials, tissue grafts, and cell encapsulation devices
- In vivo small animal longitudinal (days/weeks/months) assessment of biomaterials, tissue grafts, and cell encapsulation devices
- In vivo oxygen assessment of tumor growth and response to treatments
Oxygen diffusion in biomaterials: fresh vs. refrigerated gelatin.
In vivo oxygen imaging of implanted OxySite device.
Example Samples
- Biomaterials: Gelatin, Alginate, Agarose, Collagen, Chitosan, PLGA, and other combination experimental biomaterials
- Cell encapsulation devices: flat sheet, oxygen generating, 3D printed vascular devices
- Small animal tumor models
Key Publications
In Vivo pO2 pO2 Assessment in Subcutaneous and Intraperitoneal Sites Using Imaging of Solid Oxygen Probes
Tissue Engineering Part C: Methods, 2022
Amniotic growth factors enhanced human pre-adipocyte cell viability and differentiation under hypoxia
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B, 2022
A Bioinspired Scaffold for Rapid Oxygenation of Cell Encapsulation
Nature Communications, 2021
An Inverse-Breathing Encapsulation System for Cell Delivery
Science Advances, 2021
For a full list of our publications, see our Publications page