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Microfluidics, BioMEMS, and Medical Microsystems XI, 2013

ABSTRACT In this study, we developed a microfluidic biochip to perform laser guidance on two cell... more ABSTRACT In this study, we developed a microfluidic biochip to perform laser guidance on two cell types, chick embryonic forebrain neurons and chick embryonic spinal cord neurons. The neurons we obtained from these two cell types have no difference in morphology as observed under a high-magnification microscope. However, when flowing in the microfluidic channel and simultaneously being laser-guided, the two cell types gained quite different guidance velocities under the same experimental conditions. The experimental results demonstrate that different cell types with the same morphology (e.g., size, shape, etc.) can be effectively distinguished from each other by measuring the difference of guidance velocities (the maximum flow velocities minus the initial flow velocities). This technique is expected to provide a new approach to high-throughput, label-free cell sorting with sensitivity.

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Biofabrication, Jan 12, 2014

The basement membrane (BM), a network of laminin and collagen IV, mechanically supports individua... more The basement membrane (BM), a network of laminin and collagen IV, mechanically supports individual cells and directly mediates cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix (ECM) interactions. For example, the BM network that tightly encloses each cardiomyocyte (CM) mediates the alignment of CMs with collagen I in the ECM. Additionally, the BM-laminin is involved in the formation of gap junctions (GJs), which regulate electrical coupling between two CMs in the myocardium. The role of BM in GJ maturation remains unclear because of the complicated in vivo structures and lack of an ideal in vitro culturing mode. In this study, our laser cell-micropatterning system was used to place two neonatal CMs (NCMs) in contact on an aligned collagen gel (ACG) to study the relationship between GJ maturation and BM development. The results of double immunofluorescence staining and confocal imaging showed that BM-laminin was deposited earlier than the formation of GJs in the intercellular space and that n...

Journal of Biomedical Optics, 2013