Organ Culture, Tissue Cultures, Solid Medium, Liquid Medium

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	Organ Culture -Organ culture usually implies culturing pieces of an organ (not necessarily whole organ) in vitro, and its objective is to maintain the architecture of the tissue and direct it towards normal development such as Occurs in vivo.
In order to achieve this aim, it is essential that the tissue should never be disrupted or damaged and this requires careful handling. In view of this, organ culture techniques generally demand more careful manipulation than tissue culture techniques discussed earlier in this chapter. Media used for growing organ cultures are generally the same as those used for tissue culture. The techniques of organ culture can be divided into (i) those employing a solid medium and (ii) those employing liquid medium.