Stiffness Dependent Separation of Cells in a Microfluidic Device

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Gonghao ^a   Mao, Wenbin ^a   Byler, Rebecca ^b   Patel, Krishna ^b   Henegar, Caitlin ^a   Alexeev, Alexander ^a   Sulchek, Todd ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL ASSAY; CELL MECHANICAL STIFFNESS; CELL SELECTION; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SIZE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROFLUIDICS; SIMULATION;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SIZE; ELASTICITY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ERYTHROCYTES; HARDNESS; HUMANS; JURKAT CELLS; K562 CELLS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE;

EID: 84885762508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075901     Document Type: Article

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