Microfluidic chip integrated with amperometric detector array for in situ estimating oxygen consumption characteristics of single bovine embryos

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 680-687

  Wu, Ching Chou ^a   Saito, Takeshi ^b   Yasukawa, Tomoyuki ^b   Shiku, Hitoshi ^b   Abe, Hiroyuki ^b   Hoshi, Hiroyoshi ^c   Matsue, Tomokazu ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Res Inst for the Funct Peptides   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amperometric detector array; Embryo; Microfluidic chip; Oxygen consumption

Indexed keywords

AMPEROMETRIC DETECTOR ARRAYS; EMBRYO; MICROFLUIDIC CHIPS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; BIOACTIVITY; DETECTOR CIRCUITS; MICROFLUIDICS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 34447627663     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2007.03.017     Document Type: Article

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