OCTAGONAL PILLAR-SHAPED CELL CULTURE CONTAINER

The present invention addresses the problem of providing a means, whereby mesenchymal stem cells or adherent cells can be mass-cultured, while monitoring the cell state and strictly maintaining and controlling the same during the course of culture, to obtain cells in an amount as required for treatment of a disease, and can be homogeneously, economically, and efficiently harvested. The present invention also addresses the problem of providing a mass culture container capable of complying with a variety of demands for setting culture conditions; for example, coating of culture surface(s), combination(s) of various types of cells to be adhered to the culture surface(s), and so forth. To resolve these problems, provided is an octagonal-prism-shaped cell culture container having a closed bottom end portion and having an opening for liquid at a top end portion which is mutually opposed thereto, and in which the respective surfaces that form said octagonal prism thereof are planar, being a cell culture container in which mutually opposed pairs of surfaces among the respective surfaces that form said octagonal prism are parallel, and having a structure such that the closed bottom end portion thereof is conical in shape or is in the shape of an octagonal pyramid. The octagonal-prism-shaped cell culture container is usable as a means for homogeneous, economic and efficient mass culture.