Microfluidic chip for spatially and temporally controlled biochemical gradient generation in standard cell-culture Petri dishes

Microfluidics and Nanofluidics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 763-771

  Sahai, Ranjana ^a,b   Cecchini, Marco ^a   Klingauf, Mirko ^a   Ferrari, Aldo ^a,c   Martino, Chiara ^d,e,f   Castrataro, Piero ^d,e   Lionetti, Vincenzo ^d,g   Menciassi, Arianna ^d,e   Beltram, Fabio ^a,h  

^a ISTITUTO NANOSCIENZE CNR   (Italy)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^e ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^g CNR   (Italy)

^h CENTER FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION NEST   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cell migration; Gradient generator; Microfluidics; Multilayer soft lithography; Neutrophils; PDMS

Indexed keywords

CELL MIGRATION; GRADIENT GENERATOR; MULTILAYER SOFT LITHOGRAPHY; NEUTROPHILS; PDMS;

CELL CULTURE; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROCHANNELS; MULTILAYERS;

MICROFLUIDICS;

EID: 84855918994     PISSN: 16134982     EISSN: 16134990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10404-011-0841-2     Document Type: Article

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