“…In 1967, the first microcarrier Sephadex A-50 for cell culture was developed by Van Wezel (van Wezel, 1967) using 2-diethylaminoethyl (DEAE) then, several microcarrier materials have been developed, including glucan (van Wezel, 1967), cellulose (Paris et al, 1983), chitosan (Chen et al, 2006), glucomannan (Sun et al, 2010) and polymer molecules (Reuveny et al, 1983;Gumusderelioglu et al, 2013;Zuhlke et al, 1993;Cer et al, 2007). The commercial microcarrier products in the market are GE Cytodex I, II and III, Cytopore, and Cultispher G. All these products are expensive, limits their application in the pharmaceutical industries.…”