Culture Models for Studying Thyroid Biology and Disorders

Figure 8

A model for analyzing thyroid tissue-other cell type interaction. Thyroid tissue fragments are embedded in ALI-treated collagen gel in an inner dish (1) with a nitrocellulose membrane. The inner dish is placed in a larger outer dish (1) in which each of other cell types is already cultured in monolayer or 3-D collagen gel. Then, culture medium is added to the outer dish.