Robotic adherent cell injection for characterizing cell-cell communication

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 119-125

  Liu, Jun ^a   Siragam, Vinayakumar ^b   Gong, Zheng ^a   Chen, Jun ^a   Fridman, Michael D ^b   Leung, Clement ^a   Lu, Zhe ^a   Ru, Changhai ^c   Xie, Shaorong ^d   Luo, Jun ^d   Hamilton, Robert M ^b   Sun, Yu ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cell communication; drug testing; gap junction; microinjection; robotics; toxicology testing

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANES; COMMINUTION; ROBOTICS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL-CELL COMMUNICATIONS; DRUG TESTING; GAP JUNCTIONS; IRREGULAR MORPHOLOGY; MICRO-INJECTION; POSITIONING ERROR; STATE OF THE ART;

CELL SIGNALING;

ADHERENT CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SURFACE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; COMPUTER MOUSE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MICROINJECTION; MICROPIPETTE; MONITOR; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROBOTICS; SAMPLE SIZE; ANIMAL; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE; CELL SEPARATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOLOGY; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; MICROMANIPULATION; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LINE; CELL SEPARATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MICE; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROMANIPULATION; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84919951047     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2014.2342036     Document Type: Article

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