Plate 96 wells

See also: Plate, 96, Well

A plate 96 wells is a plastic plate containing of the wells (aligned in 8 lines X 12 columns).

For certain applications, as in the Cytofluoromètre S or the Apparatuses of PCR in real-time, these plates must be transparent to make it possible in the light of emission of fluorescence to be detected.

The plates often have a truncated corner, which is used as Système of codification.

Filling

Because of the great number of wells, one can use a Micropipette multichannel or an electronic pipette to fill a plate 96 wells, to avoid the pains which one would have with the articulations of the inch while pipettant with a traditional pipette.

Not to lose the wire of his pipetages, one can cover the plate with a sterile aluminum foil. One carries out each pipetage through the cover with the top of each well: a burst cover is a puit having been filled.

Stopping

There exist septa of rubber in plate to stop the plates 96 wells when one wants to put them in Thermocycleur S. One can stop the wells of the plates for storage to the refrigerator with adhesive layers with the dimension of the plates.

System related

There exist also systems allowing of " coincer" bars of tubes between two plates in a format corresponding to the plates 96 tubes.

Reading of the plates

There exist instruments called readers of plates to carry out the automated reading of the result of the samples in the various wells of the plate.

Washing of the plates

Although most of the time it is considered that the plates are of single Usage, there exist machines (Laveur of plate) to clean the plates in order to be able to be used again itself about it.
On can also endeavor to hand wash them.

See too

Simple: Microtiter punt

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