Microfabricated silicon nitride membranes for hepatocyte sandwich culture

Biomaterials

Volumn 29, Issue 29, 2008, Pages 3993-4002

  Zhang, Shufang ^a,b   Xia, Lei ^a,b   Kang, Chiang Huen ^a   Xiao, Guangfa ^c,d   Ong, Siew Min ^a,e   Toh, Yi Chin ^a   Leo, Hwa Liang ^a   van Noort, Danny ^a   Kan, Shyi Herng ^a   Tang, Hui Huan ^d   Yu, Hanry ^{a,b,c,e,f,g,h,i}  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b Centre for Life Sciences   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^f SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE   (Singapore)

^g NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^h NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

ⁱ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug testing; Galactose immobilization; Hepatocytes; Mass transport; Porous Si3N4 membrane; Sandwich culture

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; MICROFABRICATION; NITRIDES; NONMETALS; SILICON; SILICON NITRIDE; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

HEPATOCYTE (HC); MASS TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; SILICON NITRIDE MEMBRANES;

POROUS SILICON;

COLLAGEN GEL; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE DEXTRAN; GALACTOSE; SILICON NITRIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BILIARY EXCRETION; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL TRANSPORT; DIFFUSION; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG SENSITIVITY; IMMOBILIZATION; LIVER CELL; MALE; MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPOLARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL POLARITY; CELL SHAPE; CELLS, CULTURED; GALACTOSE; HEPATOCYTES; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; POROSITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 48549092389     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2008.06.024     Document Type: Article

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