Parallel micropipette aspirator arrays for high-throughput mechanical characterization of biological cells

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, uTAS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 751-753

  Moraes, C ^a,b   Tong, J ^a   Liu, X Y ^a   Simmons, C A ^a,b   Sun, Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

High throughput; Mechanical characterization; Micropipette aspiration

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; DEFORMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING;

AUTOMATED IMAGE PROCESSING; BIOLOGICAL CELLS; CELL DEFORMATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; L929 FIBROBLASTS; MECHANICAL PARAMETERS; MICRO MANIPULATION; MICROPIPETTE ASPIRATION;

CELLS;

EID: 79953272212     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

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2. J. Guck et al., "Optical deformability as an inherent cell marker for testing malignant transformation and metastatic competence," Biophys J, vol. 88, pp. 3689-98, May 2005.
3. X. Y. Liu, Y. F. Wang, and Y. Sun, "Real-time high-accuracy micropipette aspiration for characterizing mechanical properties of biological cells," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2007), Rome 2007.