Microfluidic assay for simultaneous culture of multiple cell types on surfaces or within hydrogels

Nature Protocols

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1247-1259

  Shin, Yoojin ^a   Han, Sewoon ^a   Jeon, Jessie S ^b   Yamamoto, Kyoko ^c   Zervantonakis, Ioannis K ^b   Sudo, Ryo ^c   Kamm, Roger D ^b   Chung, Seok ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CELL ASSAY; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MANIPULATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURFACE; CELL SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HYDROGEL; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROENVIRONMENT; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; HYDROGELS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NYLONS;

EID: 84862157431     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2012.051     Document Type: Article

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