Tissue engineering with electric fields: Immobilization of mammalian cells in multilayer aggregates using dielectrophoresis

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 694-700

  Sebastian, Anil ^a   Buckle, Anne Marie ^b   Markx, Gerard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D culture; Adhesion; Dielectrophoresis; Immobilization; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROPHORESIS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

CELL VIABILITY; ISO-OSMOTIC SOLUTION; MAMMALIAN CELLS; OSMOTIC BUFFER;

CELL IMMOBILIZATION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CELL VIABILITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROPHORESIS; IMMOBILIZED CELL; NONHUMAN; OSMOSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

CELL AGGREGATION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL SEPARATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROPHORESIS; HUMANS; JURKAT CELLS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 35048832907     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: 10970290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.21416     Document Type: Article

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