METHOD FOR MANAGING VESSEL RELATED TO CULTURE AND THE VESSEL RELATED TO THE CULTURE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for managing vessels related to culture, capable of preventing confusion of cells, when therapy is, for example, conducted by collecting cells from a patient, culturing the cells, and returning the cultured cells to the same patient, and to provide the vessels related to the culture. SOLUTION: This method uses a receiving vessel 15, culture vessels 16, 17, and discrimination means 21 to 23, wherein the receiving vessel 15 receives the cells collected from the patient so as to transport the cells, each of the culture vessels 16, 17 receives the cells taken out from the receiving vessel 15 so as to culture the cells, and discrimination means 21 to 23 make the receiving vessel 15 and the culture vessels 16, 17 connected with each other to form a combination and discriminate the combination from other combinations, so that information of the discrimination means 21 to 23 is memorized by being connected with information on the patient. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO