Microfluidic hydrogel layers with multiple gradients to stimulate and perfuse three-dimensional neuronal cell cultures

Procedia Chemistry

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 369-372

  Kunze, Anja ^a   Bertsch, Arnaud ^a   Giugliano, Michele ^b   Renaud, Philippe ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

3D cell culture; gradient; hydrogel; microfluidics; neurons; perfusion

Indexed keywords

3D CELL CULTURE; AGAROSE; CELL LAYERS; CELL-FREE; CORTICAL NEURONS; CULTURE MEDIUM; GRADIENT; HYDROGEL LAYERS; HYDROGEL SCAFFOLDS; IN-VITRO; LIQUID PHASE; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; NEURITE OUTGROWTH; NEURITES; NEURONAL CELL CULTURE; NEURONAL NETWORKS; PDMS MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE;

CELLS; FLUIDIC DEVICES; HYDROGELS; MICROFLUIDICS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURONS; SILICONES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CELL CULTURE;

EID: 71549163137     PISSN: 18766196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proche.2009.07.092     Document Type: Conference Paper

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