Microfluidic technologies for temporal perturbations of chemotaxis

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages 259-284

  Irimia, Daniel ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

microscale; neutrophil; signal transduction processes; signaling networks

Indexed keywords

CELL MIGRATION; CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; CONTROL-CELL; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PATHWAYS; MEDICAL INTERVENTION; MICRO-SCALES; MICROFLUIDIC TECHNOLOGIES; NEUTROPHIL; PHYSICAL LOCATIONS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PROCESSES; SIGNALING EVENTS; SIGNALING MOLECULES; SIGNALING NETWORKS; TEMPORAL PERTURBATIONS; THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY; TIME AND SPACE; WOUND HEALING;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BIOCHEMISTRY; DISEASE CONTROL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MICROFLUIDICS; PATHOLOGY; SAILING VESSELS; SIGNALING;

SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CHEY PROTEIN;

BACTERIA CHEMOTAXIS; BACTERIUM; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL MOTILITY; CHEMOTAXIS; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTIC CHEMOTAXIS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MICROENVIRONMENT; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MICROPIPETTE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMOTAXIS; EUKARYOTA; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; NEOPLASMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77955630835     PISSN: 15239829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-bioeng-070909-105241     Document Type: Review

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