Higher viscous solution induces smaller droplets for cell-enclosing capsules in a co-flowing stream

Biotechnology Progress

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 994-997

  Sakai, Shinji ^a   Kawabata, Kenji ^a   Ono, Tsutomu ^a   Ijima, Hiroyuki ^a   Kawakami, Koei ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DROP FORMATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERS; SOLUTIONS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

CAPSULES; CELL THERAPY; POLYMER SOLUTION; VISCOUS SOLUTION;

VISCOUS FLOW;

BIOMATERIAL; MICROSPHERE; PARAFFIN; WATER;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLUIDICS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONGUE TUMOR; VISCOSITY;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSPHERES; PARAFFIN; SOLUTIONS; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VISCOSITY; WATER;

EID: 20144378482     PISSN: 87567938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bp049600i     Document Type: Article

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