Microfluidic effects of transporting signaling components in cell coculture chips

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 99-107

  Hu, Guoqing ^a   Li, Dongqing ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell coculture; Concentration gradients; Microfluidics; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

BIOACTIVITY; BIOREACTORS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROWTH (MATERIALS); GROWTH KINETICS; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROFLUIDICS; PEPTIDES; SELF ASSEMBLY; SUGAR (SUCROSE); THREE DIMENSIONAL; VELOCITY;

3D MODELS; CHANNEL GEOMETRIES; CONCENTRATION GRADIENTS; CONTINUOUS FLOWS; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTORS; GROWTH FACTORS; HETEROGENEOUS GROWTHS; HIGH VELOCITIES; IN CELLS; LOW VELOCITIES; MICRO-FLUIDIC; MICROCHANNEL BIOREACTORS; MICROFLUIDIC TRANSPORTS; MONOLAYER CELLS; MULTICELLULAR TUMOR SPHEROIDS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARALLEL CHANNELS; SIGNALING CHEMICALS; SIGNALING COMPONENTS; THEORETICAL MODELS;

CELL GROWTH;

EID: 58249083347     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-008-0304-6     Document Type: Article

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